Diego Rivera


Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
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 born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato. Diego Rivera 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.    The painting below is entitled Flower Day (1925)


Diego Rivera Prints Paintings Murals Art
Diego Rivera Prints Paintings Murals Art
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was a internationally renowned Mexican artist, an participating Communist party member, as well as husband of painter Frida Kahlo. Rivera's enormous wall paintings in fresco assisted launch the Mexican Mural Renaissance. From 1922 until 1953, Rivera created murals in Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Chapingo, New York City Detroit and San Francisco. Rivera's 1931 retrospective exhibit with New York City's Museum of Modern Art in New had been their second such display. Thought of to be th...


The Art of Diego Rivera
The Art of Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957) was born Diego Maria de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez in Guanajuato, Gto. He was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, 1929-1939 and 1940-1954 (her death). Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit,...


Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957) was a Mexican painter and one of the most important muralists of the 20th century. He painted a series of vivid murals in Mexico and in the United States. His murals in Mexico were on public buildings (for example, the National Palace in Mexico City) (begun in 1929) and depicted the life and history of the Mexican people. His murals in the United States were painted in 1930-34 and depicted the history of history and the struggles of the working class. Rivera's m...



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