Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957), was a Mexican painter and
muralist. Diego is perhaps best known by the world public for his
oil painting a vast mural in the 1930s featuring early communist
leaders juxtaposed with the Founding Fathers of the United States
in the lobby of the Rockefeller Building. That work was quickly
destroyed by angry Rockefeller staff people before it could be
completed in that location; see the movie Cradle Will Rock for a
reenactment.
Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato Mexico, in 1892 he moved to
Mexico City with his family. He studied in the San Carlos Academy
and in the carving workshop of artist José Guadalupe Posada, whose
influence was decisive. Later in Paris, he received the influence
of post-modernism and cubism, the mediums in which he expressed
himself with ease. Diego Rivera with the use of classicist,
simplified and colorful painting recovered the pre-columbian past
catching the most significant moments in mexican history: the
earth, the farmer, the laborer, the custumes and popular
characters.
Diego Rivera's legacy to modern mexican art was decisive in murals
and canvas; he was a revolutionary painter looking to take art to
the big public, to streets and buildings, managing a precise,
direct, and realist style, full of social content.
Please visit our gallery of
Diego Rivera Oil Painting Reproduction.
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