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'''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]
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'''Diego Rivera y Barrientos''' ([[Guanajuato]] 1886 – [[Mexico City]] 1957) was a [[Mexican]] [[Muralism|Muralist]] [[painter]] and draughtsman. ''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] He 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. [http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4942]
    
''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]

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