Diego Rivera: Genius of Latin American painting (+Christmas)
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Published at: 08/12/2024 08:20 AM
On December 8, 1886, the Mexican painter and muralist Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, better known as Diego Rivera, was born.
At the age of 11, he obtained a government grant to enter the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, where he was a student of prestigious artists such as Santiago Rebull, Félix Parra and José María Velasco, until his expulsion in 1902, for having participated in the student revolts of that year.
Rivera was characterized by his communist ideology, often embodied in his works, which became a significant and influential factor for the Mexican and Latin American Muralist Movement.
In 1922 he became the co-founder of the Union of Revolutionary Painters, Sculptors and Graphic Artists and joined the Mexican Communist Party (PCM).
An essayist and controversial, he published together with André Breton a Manifeste pour I'Art Révolutionnaire (1938). He married Frida Kahlo, considered one of the best introspection painters in Mexico during the 20th century.
At the end of 1955, he went to the then Soviet Union where he was cured of a cancer he was suffering from. Two years later, a vein disease caused a blood clot that prevented him from moving his right arm. Possibly the same problem caused a heart attack, the cause of his death in 1957 in Mexico City.
Mazo News Team