Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (Guanajuato 1886 – Mexico City 1957) was a Mexican painter.

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. The virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum

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

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.

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. Industrialist Nelson Rockefeller commissioned a mural by Rivera, though later ordered it painted over, due to some pro-socialist imagery in the work. A duplicate mural is now in Mexico City Museum of Fine Arts.

See also

• Painting Masterpieces PART III
• Painting Schools
• Muralism

External links

• Diego Rivera
• Diego Rivera Encyclopædia Britannica.