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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]] 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 was born in Guanajuato, Mexico; his mother was a Converso [[Jew]], and he publically announced his Jewish roots: "My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life," Rivera wrote in 1935. "From this has come my sympathy with the downtrodden masses which motivates all my work." []http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Mexico.html  

'''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 was born in Guanajuato, Mexico; his mother, a doctor, was a Converso [[Jew]], and he publically announced his Jewish roots: "My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life," Rivera wrote in 1935. "From this has come my sympathy with the downtrodden masses which motivates all my work." []http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Mexico.html  

''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]

[[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 (In 1929, Rivera was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party). Still a [[socialist]], 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>

Diego Rivera rebelled against the traditional school of painting and developed a style that combined historical, social, and political ideas. His great body of work reflects cultural changes taking place in Mexico and around the world during the turbulent twentieth century. [http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Rivera-Diego.html#ixzz12GO9KaN6His] Rivera was husband of artist [[Frida Kahlo]] and was an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico (In 1929, Rivera was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party). Still a [[socialist]], 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>

 

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