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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]

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]

[[File:Diego Rivera Man, Controller of the Universe 1934.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Man, Controller of the Universe, 1934.]]

[[File:Diego Rivera Man, Controller of the Universe 1934.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Man, Controller of the Universe, 1934.]]

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]] in 1933. Later, Rockefeller ordered it to be painted over, due to some pro-[[socialist]] imagery in the work. <ref>[http://www.diego-rivera.org/rockefellercontroversy.html Rockefeller Controversy.]</ref> A duplicate original mural is now in [[Mexico City]]'s [[The Fine Arts Palace]] (although at a smaller scale), "Man, Controller of the Universe", 1934. .<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]], in 1933 he attempted to insert a portrait of [[Lenin]] into a mural commissioned by [[Nelson Rockefeller]], called "Man at the Crossroads". Later, Rockefeller ordered it to be painted over, due to some pro-[[socialist]] imagery in the work. <ref>[http://www.diego-rivera.org/rockefellercontroversy.html Rockefeller Controversy.]</ref> A duplicate original mural is now in [[Mexico City]]'s [[The Fine Arts Palace]] (although at a smaller scale), "Man, Controller of the Universe", 1934. .<ref>[http://gomexico.about.com/od/sights/ss/df_walking_9.htm Mexico City Museum of Fine Arts]</ref>

At the [[Detroit]] Institute of Arts, the museum's central courtyard is decorated with a series of 27 murals by the Mexican painter Diego Rivera that depict the automobile industry.  

At the [[Detroit]] Institute of Arts, the museum's central courtyard is decorated with a series of 27 murals by the Mexican painter Diego Rivera that depict the automobile industry.