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[[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.]]

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>

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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[[File:Diego Rivera, Cabbage Seller, 1936..jpg|thumb|Cabbage Seller, 1936.]]

[[File:Diego Rivera, Cabbage Seller, 1936..jpg|thumb|Cabbage Seller, 1936.]]

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