Diego Rivera and Google

So today was the 125th 'birthday' of celebrated Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera. To honour the occasion, Google's doodle of the day portrayed Rivera creating one of his great public murals:

The question is, what would Rivera think of it? 

On the one hand, he was an active communist, so it could be assumed that he would be opposed to the appropriation of his work and character by one of the biggest corporations in the world.

However, the reason Rivera painted immense murals on public buildings was because he believed that art should not be locked away in galleries for the enjoyment of the elites, but available for everyone. Public art was a means of educating the people about Mexican history and identity. In that spirit, perhaps Rivera would approve of the doodle. After all, what is more public than the internet? And if the doodle inspired people who previously had not heard of Rivera before to investigate his work and then to delve further into the issues of the Mexican revolution and questions of identity (ethnic mestizaje, cultural tensions between the modern and the traditional, the American and the indigenous), then it would be achieving what Rivera set out to do all those years ago.