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[[Image:Rivera.jpg|left|100px|Diego and Frida]]

[[Image:Rivera.jpg|left|100px|Diego and Frida]]

'''Diego Rivera y Barrientos''' ([[Guanajuato]] 1886 – [[Mexico City]] 1957) was a [[Mexican]] [[Muralism|Muralist]] [[painter]]. Along with [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]] and [[Jose Clemente Orozco]], Rivera was one of the most important artists in the Mexican mural movement. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/ca/ho_31.91.7.htm]

'''Diego Rivera y Barrientos''' ([[Guanajuato]] 1886 – [[Mexico City]] 1957) was a [[Mexican]] [[Muralism|Muralist]] [[painter]]. ''Along with [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]] and [[Jose Clemente Orozco]], Rivera was one of the most important artists in the Mexican mural movement.'' [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/ca/ho_31.91.7.htm]

Rivera's talent for historical murals and his tributes to earthy folk traditions made him one of the most influential artists in the Americas and one of Mexico's most beloved painters. [http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php The virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum]

''Rivera's talent for historical murals and his tributes to earthy folk traditions made him one of the most influential artists in the Americas and one of Mexico's most beloved painters.'' [http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php The virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum]

[[Image:Rivera AlamedaPark.jpg|right|Rivera's detail of mural]]

[[Image:Rivera AlamedaPark.jpg|center|Rivera's detail of mural]]

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Detail of mural, '''Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, 1948.'''  

Detail of mural, '''Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, 1948.'''  

[[Image:Trotsky - Rivera - Breton.jpg|thumb|270px|Leon Trotsky, Diego Rivera, and André Breton.]]

[[Image:Trotsky - Rivera - Breton.jpg|thumb|270px|Leon Trotsky, Diego Rivera, and André Breton.]]

Diego Rivera studied in the San Carlos Academy from 1896 to 1905; he had as teachers some of the most important painting figures like [[Santiago Rebull]], [[Jose Maria Velasco|José María Velasco]], Félix Parra, [[José Salomé Pina]], Andrés Ríos, Julio Ruelas, Antonio Fabrés and Germán Gedovius; hhis travels to Europe enabled him to come into contact with Renaissance, Cubist and avant-garde works. His work shows study and analysis of neoimpressionism, Cézannism, Fauvism and [[Cubism]]. He experimented with oils, pastels, watercolors, fresco, encaustic and tempera on cloth, cardboard, paper and pressed cork. His cubist works are not well known, like ''El guerrillero,'' 1915 and ''Maternidad,'' 1916. Rivera spent five years producing cubist paintings (1913 - 1917). [http://www.museoblaisten.com/english.asp?myURL=%2F02asp%2FEnglish%2FartistDetailEnglish%2Easp&myVars=artistId%3D9]

Diego Rivera studied in the San Carlos Academy from 1896 to 1905; he had as teachers some of the most important painting figures like [[Santiago Rebull]], [[Jose Maria Velasco|José María Velasco]], Félix Parra, [[José Salomé Pina]], Andrés Ríos, Julio Ruelas, Antonio Fabrés and Germán Gedovius; ''his travels to Europe enabled him to come into contact with Renaissance, Cubist and avant-garde works. His work shows study and analysis of neoimpressionism, Cézannism, Fauvism and [[Cubism]]. He experimented with oils, pastels, watercolors, fresco, encaustic and tempera on cloth, cardboard, paper and pressed cork.'' His cubist works are not well known, like ''El guerrillero,'' 1915 and ''Maternidad,'' 1916. Rivera spent five years producing cubist paintings (1913 - 1917). [http://www.museoblaisten.com/english.asp?myURL=%2F02asp%2FEnglish%2FartistDetailEnglish%2Easp&myVars=artistId%3D9]

Rivera was husband of artist [[Frida Kahlo]] and was an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico. A noted [[Communist]], he once attempted to insert a portrait of [[Lenin]] into a mural commissioned by [[Nelson Rockefeller]]. Later, Rockefeller ordered it to be painted over, due to some pro-[[socialist]] imagery in the work.  A duplicate original mural is now in [[Mexico City]]'s [[The Fine Arts Palace]].<ref>[http://gomexico.about.com/od/sights/ss/df_walking_9.htm Mexico City Museum of Fine Arts]</ref>

Rivera was husband of artist [[Frida Kahlo]] and was an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico. A noted [[Communist]], he once attempted to insert a portrait of [[Lenin]] into a mural commissioned by [[Nelson Rockefeller]]. Later, Rockefeller ordered it to be painted over, due to some pro-[[socialist]] imagery in the work.  A duplicate original mural is now in [[Mexico City]]'s [[The Fine Arts Palace]].<ref>[http://gomexico.about.com/od/sights/ss/df_walking_9.htm Mexico City Museum of Fine Arts]</ref>