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Diego Mara Concepcin Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta

y Rodrguez

Diego Mara Concepcin Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos

Acosta y Rodrguez, better known as Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato,

on December 8, 1886 . His talent for painting would become apparent in his young

school years. When he was just ten years old the Diego family moved to Mexico City.

There, he won a government scholarship to join the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos,

where he remained until his expulsion in 1902, for participating in the student revoltsthat year.

The influences he received during his stay in the capital were varied, ranging from those

of his first teacher, disciple of Ingres, to those of Jos Guadalupe Posada , engraver in

whose workshop Diego worked and whose influence would be decisive in his subsequent

artistic development.

Five years later, Diego made his first exhibition, which was a big hit with the public; this

earned him a scholarship from the government of Veracruz to continue his education as

a painter in Spain, in the school of San Fernando in Madrid. From there he made severaltrips to France, Belgium, Holland and Britain, between 1908 and 1910 , before finally

settling in Paris in 1911. During this trip he was influenced by post- impressionism,

mainly by the art of Paul Czanne , which moved him to experiment with cubism and

other new styles, in Diego abruptly unfolded into, creating original works full of

harmony. In the year 1910 also exhibited forty of his work in Mexico, with which,

despite not having fully developed the potential for vigorous and emphatic style, won a

favorable reception from the public; Diego Rivera - The Flower Carrier.

It was always an ambition to Rivera Plastic expressed as events , ideas and hopesof the Mexican Revolution. To find a suitable medium for this expression he had to

experiment with the fresco technique. This technique involves painting directly on the

mortar (mixture of lime and sand) wet , so that the color penetrates and dries it , fix it .

Back in Europe, Rivera exhibited in Madrid and Paris. In 1920 he went to Italy to study

the Renaissance frescoes that are preserved there, and investigated the mural art of

Italian Renaissance painter Giotto, whose influence did the Cubist movement away to

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inquire more deeply into the social scenes of their environment. Before embarking,

Diegos portfolios had hundreds of sketches to run on his return.

From the experiences gathered in this trip, Rivera concluded a narrative style, color

linear and spot applied, which used to his return to Mexico in 1921 , following the

election of President Alvaro Obregon . Once in the country, founded with Jos Clemente

Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros pictorial movement to which he gave the name of

Mexican school of painting . Then worked in the development of frescos for the National

Preparatory School in Mexico City and the Ministry of Education appliance. To this

period belongs one of his greatest works, " The Fertile Land " , conducted for the

National School of Agriculture at Chapingo . In 1929 he married Frida Kahlo.

Diego Rivera was keenly interested in politics and in his compositions murals, historical

or symbolic voice resonates preaching the social -revolutionary and resistance to foreign

oppression . Other large murals that can be seen today in the country are the Corts

Palace in Cuernavaca, and the National Palace in Mexico City , to name a few .

Rivera painted murals in Mexico that made him so famous that he became not only chief

school of painting , but also a political leader . His activities in this last order did not

center few controversies and incidents, such as when he refused the Hotel del Prado in

Mexico City , to exhibit his great fresco in which were the words "God does not exists, "

Diego , in turn , refused to leave clear , until finally returning in 1956 yielded a trip to

Russia made for health reasons . Diego Rivera was a member of the Communist Party

from 1923 to 1930 and from 1954 until his death.

The expansion led to Rivera fame during the 1930s to exhibit his paintings in New York ,

and was commissioned to carry out large murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts and the

Rockefeller Center in N. York , where his cool "Man at the Crossroads" was widely

criticized by the similarity of the features of one of his figures with Lenin. The mural was

destroyed by the center and replaced by another Brangwyn , but Diego then played for

the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico .

Since the late 1930s he devoted himself to landscape painting and portraits. His most

gigantic project , a mural about the history of Mexico to the National Palace , was

unfinished at his death in Mexico City on November 25, 1957 .