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Diego Rivera's Man, Controller of the Universe showcases mankind's godlike abilities to create and destroy. While the mural does have very interesting use of light within it, in the highlights it uses and contrasts in high and low saturation to stress the difference between good and evil, it also uses the light of the environment it is displayed in very well. As a muralist Rivera must paint with his environment in mind since his work will be there permanently. If for example, he was hired to paint a mural for a dark dull hallway and he created a mural that uses dark colors , his creation not matter how beautiful would suffer. Unless Diego's mural was meant to be seen in a dark environment the mural wouldn't work and the patron would either have to pay to install lights or chose to mot pay Rivera. When creating a design there may be some lighting conditions that the designer has no control over and its best for the designer to work with these conditions to enhance their work. Rivera uses the bright ceiling lights of this building to further illuminate the bright shining "golden era" of man kind and to help create further contrast between it and man's darker creations.
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