Diego Rivera's extraordinary murals for the Detroit Museum have created a nation-wide furor. The prodigious mural upon which he has been working so intensely in Rockefeller City has caused a greater and more momentous sensation. Rivera's whole life has been one of change and excitement. A Mexican Indian by birth, he began his career as an academic painter; helped to develop Cubism—with Braque and Picasso, in Paris; abandoned Cubism and returned to Mexico where he became a focus and storm center in the artistic revival there; painted great murals in the principal official and education buildings of Mexico; and became an imposing political leader there. A man of Renaissance power and proportions, he is the most widely discussed painter on the American continent. His next important mural is for the Chicago Fair