Editing Juan O'Gorman (section)

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[[File:Biblioteca unam.JPG|thumb|O'Gorman's mural ''Historical Representation of Culture'' on the [[Central Library (UNAM)|Central Library at UNAM]]]]
Juan O'Gorman's most celebrated work due to its creativity, construction technique, and dimensions, are the four thousand square meters murals covering the four faces of the building of the [[Central Library (UNAM)|Central Library]] at {{Lang|es|Ciudad Universitaria|italic=no}} at UNAM. These murals are mosaics made from millions of colored stones that he gathered all around Mexico in order to be able to obtain the different colors he needed.<ref name=":1" /> The north side pictures Mexico's pre-Hispanic past and the south facade its colonial one, while the east wall depicts the contemporary world, and the west shows the university and contemporary Mexico.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-09|title=Architectural Classics: Central Library, Ciudad Universitaria / Juan O'Gorman|url=https://www.archdaily.com/943125/architectural-classics-central-library-ciudad-universitaria-juan-ogorman|access-date=2020-10-13|website=ArchDaily|language=en-US}}</ref>

<blockquote>From the beginning, I had the idea of making mosaics of colored stones in the walls of the collections, with a technique in which I was already well experienced. With these mosaics the library would be different from the other buildings of {{Lang|es|Ciudad Universitaria|italic=no}}, and it would be given a particular Mexican character.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://bibliotecacentral.unam.mx/murales04.html|website = Biblioteca Central UNAM|title = Creación del mural|access-date = 2015-10-03|archive-date = 2015-10-04|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151004210818/http://bibliotecacentral.unam.mx/murales04.html|url-status = dead}}</ref></blockquote>