Mexican Painter
Diego Rivera
Biography ~
Diego Rivera was born December 8th 1886 in Guanajuato Mexico . He spent most of his art career in Europe, United States and Mexico City. His main art style was Post- Impressionist he was inspired by the art of Cezanne. Around that time is when he started getting more attention and some was exhibited. Sadly he died November 24th 1997, Mexico City at the age of 71 from heart failures.
Diego Rivera Art Pieces
Baile en Tehauntepec
This painting was made in 1935.The name of this is Baile en Tehauntepec. I think this painting is interesting because the painting was a reflect the social life of Mexico, based on how Diego saw it . It is stored in Las Angeles Museum of Art. The original cost is 15,7 million dollars.
Style of Art
Baile en Tehauntepec is an oil on canvas painting that is cubist style . Rivera used bright colors in this painting to create a festive mood in an average life of a Mexican .
Why is Diego Rivera important to the art history?
Diego Rivera is important because he told stories about Mexican history in his art .He was a leader of a of the Mexican mural movements . Rivera elevated the timeless art from of public murals. He inspired used art to advance social and political causes and to cause attention to social inequality. He painted public murals decepting revolutionary politics ; and he attempted to convey the dream of a socialist utopia to the people of Mexico. His style of large, flattened surfaces and simple colors developed from his studis of Mexican folk art and pre- Hispanic cultures.
Facts About Diego Rivera
- Frida Kahlo was one of four wives
- Frida and Diego Rivera had messy fights, multiple affairs and divorced in 1939, but remarried a year later.
- Diego enrolled in art school at twelve years old.
- His first child died at the age of two
- Diego loved dogs.
Diego Rivera Quotes
I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso. ”
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves
” If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait. ”
My cubist paintings are my most Mexican
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
Diego Rivera Majior Accomplishments
Among his many contributions, Rivera is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture.
His radical political views and tempestuous romance with the painter Frida Kahlo were then, and remain today, a source of public intrigue.
he created popular political murals throughout Mexico that often included attacks on the ruling class, the church and capitalism