Who was Diego Rivera?

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"Diego Rivera
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Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo (photographer: Carl Van Vechten)Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), (full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez) was a Mexican painter and muralist.

Diego is perhaps best known by the public world for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. When his patron Nelson Rockefeller discovered that the mural included a portrait of Lenin and other communist imagery, he fired Rivera, and the unfinished work was eventually destroyed by Rockefeller staff people. The film Cradle Will Rock includes a dramatization of the controversy.


[edit] Early career in Europe
Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico to a Converso family who descended from Jews forced to convert to Catholicism. Rivera was raised as a fr lzsatheist.[1] On his arrival in Europe in 1907 Rivera initially went to study in Barcelona, Spain, and from there proceeded to Paris, France, to live and work with the great gathering of artists in Montparnasse, especially at La Ruche, where his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait in 1914. [1] The circle of close friends that included further Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska (Marevna) in her painting "Homage to Friends from Montparnasse" (1962) [2].

Paris in those years was witnessing the emergence of cubism in paintings by such eminent painters as Picasso, Braque and Cezanne. From 1913 to 1918 Rivera himself enthusiastically embraced this new school of art, as his masterly cubist paintings from this time demonstrate. His paintings began to attract attention; and was able to display them at several exhibitions.


En el Arsenal detail, 1928In 1920 Rivera left France and, travelling via Italy, returned in 1921 to Mexico, where he continued his prolific career as an artist. Having been born in Guanajuato, he now became involved in the new Mexican mural movement. With such Mexican artists as José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo, and the French artist Jean Charlot, he began to experiment with fresco painting on large walls. Rivera soon developed his own style of large, simplified figures and bold colors. He had also become interested in left-wing politics. Thus when he painted his first mural, he presented ethnic Mexican subjects in a political context. Many of his murals deal symbolically with Mexican society and thought after the country's 1910 Revolution. His art, in a fashion similar to the stellae of the Maya tell stories. One mural “En el Arsenal” 'in the arsenal' [2] which shows to the left Vittorio Vidale, Tina Modotti (holding an ammunition belt), and Julio Antonio Mella (with hat) is said by some to elucidate the political murder of Mella. Rivera's radical political beliefs, his attacks on the church, and clergy, as well as his flirtations with Trotskyists and left-wing assassins made him a controversial figure even in communist circles. Some of Rivera's best murals are in the National Palace in Mexico City and at the National Agricultural School in Chapingo, Texcoco."

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Diego Rivera

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Diego Rivera was a painter born in Guanajuato,Mexico on Dec. 8, 1886. He is best known for his 1933 mural " Man at the Crossroads", which included a portrait of Vladimir Lenin, amongst other famous communists. Moving back to Mexico from Italy in 1921, Rivera became involved in the new Mexican mural movement. Rivera soon developed his own style of painting using large, simplified figures and bold colors. Many of his murals deal symbolically with Mexican society and thought after the country's 1910 Revolution. After nearly 50 years of painting, Rivera died on Nov. 24, 1957.

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Diego Rivera was a famous painter.
Diego Rivera is the Mexican artist best known for his expansive and politically-charged murals .
He was married Frida Kahlo another famous painter.
Oscar is trying to be funny but didn't quite make it.
The Geraldo part was funny but a reference to Chita would have been better that the Zorro thing.
And the fictional character Zorro was named Don Diego de la Vega.
Oscar that was a slothful effort on your part.
You'll have to work a little harder to actually achieve a comedic effect.

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"Diego Rivera was an artist .muralist, and a revolutionary who participated in the founding of the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors in the autumn of 1922, and later that year he joined the Mexican Communist Party
He was one of the most important figures in the Mexican mural movement and won international acclaim for his vast public wall paintings, in which he created a new iconography based on socialist ideas and exalted the indigenous and popular heritage in Mexican culture. He also executed large quantities of easel paintings and graphic work..Many of his murals deal symbolically with Mexican society and thought after the country's 1910 Revolution.Rivera was in the United States from 1930 to 1934, where he painted murals for the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (1931), the Detroit Institute of Arts (1932), and Rockefeller Center in New York City (1933). His Man at the Crossroads fresco in Rockefeller Center offended the sponsors because the figure of Vladimir Lenin was in the picture; the work was destroyed by the centre but was later reproduced by Rivera at the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City. After returning to Mexico, Rivera continued to paint murals of gradually declining quality. His most ambitious and gigantic mural, an epic on the history of Mexico for the National Palace, Mexico City, was unfinished when he died."

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Diego Rivera is the Mexican artist best known for his expansive and politically-charged murals and for his love affair with artist Frida Kahlo. That guy above has no idea what he's talking about.

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Rivera was a famous Mexican painter, who was in love with Frida Kahlo. He was best known for painting murals.

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Visit the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) to see wonderful examples of his mural work. Huge murals wrapping around one entire room depict the rise of the auto industry in Detroit. Scenes from inside the factories show laborers working on the silver and gray assembly lines. The design is awesome and the detail amazing.
It's quite inspiring.

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A Mexican painter, follower of the Muralist, Mexican Renaissance, Social Realist, and Cubist movements. He was the husband of the Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo.

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~He was the day to day alter ego of Zorro, and, eventually, the great -great-great uncle of Geraldo.