ok. so for art class i have to write an essay and im doing it on Diego Rivera. but i need help writing the intro. so far i have:
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez also known as Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, Mexico on December 8, 1886.
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…….was a world-famous Mexican painter and regarded as one of the most influential painters in Mexican history.
Diego Rivera was a Converso, a member of an ethnic group comprised of Jews whose ancestors had been forced to convert to Catholicism( was raised as a Catholic, but was aware of his Jewish heritage). As an adult, Rivera was a self-proclaimed atheist. , an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo. 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, New York City.His 1931 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City was their second.
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…….was a world-famous Mexican painter and regarded as one of the most influential painters in Mexican history.
Diego Rivera was a Converso, a member of an ethnic group comprised of Jews whose ancestors had been forced to convert to Catholicism( was raised as a Catholic, but was aware of his Jewish heritage). As an adult, Rivera was a self-proclaimed atheist. , an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo. 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, New York City.His 1931 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City was their second.
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A government scholarship enabled Rivera to study art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City from age 10, and a grant from the governor of Veracruz enabled him to continue his studies in Europe in 1907. He studied in Spain and in 1909 settled in Paris, where he became a friend of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and other leading modern painters. About 1917 he abandoned the Cubist style in his own work and moved closer to the Post-Impressionism of Paul Cézanne, adopting a visual language of simplified forms and bold areas of colour.
Distribution of the Land, three mural panels by Diego Rivera, …
Schalkwijk/Art Resource, New York
Rivera returned to Mexico in 1921 after meeting with fellow Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. Both sought to create a new national art on revolutionary themes that would decorate public buildings in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. On returning to Mexico, Rivera painted his first important mural, Creation, for the Bolívar Auditorium of the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. In 1923 he began painting the walls of the Ministry of Public Education building in Mexico City, working in fresco and completing the commission in 1930. These huge frescoes, depicting Mexican agriculture, industry, and culture, reflect a genuinely native subject matter and mark the emergence of Rivera’s mature style. Rivera defines his solid, somewhat stylized human figures by precise outlines rather than by internal modeling. The flattened, simplified figures are set in crowded, shallow spaces and are enlivened with bright, bold colours. The Indians, peasants, conquistadores, and factory workers depicted combine monumentality of form with a mood that is lyrical and at times elegiac.
Rivera’s next major work was a fresco cycle in a former chapel at what is now the National School of Agriculture at Chapingo (1926–27). His frescoes there contrast scenes of natural fertility and harmony among the pre-Columbian Indians with scenes of their enslavement and brutalization by the Spanish conquerors. Rivera’s murals in the Cortés Palace in Cuernavaca (1930) and the National Palace in Mexico City (1930–35) depict various aspects of Mexican history in a more didactic narrative style.
Detail from Popular History of Mexico, mosaic by Diego Rivera, 1953; …
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Diego Rivera with Frida Kahlo.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-42516)
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. Frida Kahlo, who married Rivera twice, was also an accomplished painter. Rivera’s autobiography, My Art, My Life, was published posthumously in 1960.
Additional Reading
Pete Hamill, Diego Rivera (1999); Patrick Marnham, Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera (1998); Bertram D. Wolfe, The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera (1963, reissued 2000); Andrea Kettenmann, Diego Rivera, 1886–1957: A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art (2003).
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