DiegoRivera

Nació 1886

Se murió 1957

Diego Rivera / Girasikes / 1943 / Oleo sobre madera

+ Guanajuato Mexico

+ age of two = studio

+ 1892 to Mexico City

+ age of 10; artist

+ classes = Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City

+ military college

+ strict regimen = two weeks

+1898 attended San Carlos as a full-time

Vendedora de Flores

+ school’s annual show

+ 26 works and became

+ Jose Posada

+ unhappy = leave

+ travel Mexico

+ Teodoro Dehesa, governor of Vera Cruz.

+ offered him a scholarship

+ Paris & Cubists

+ Parisian art world for a decade & cubism

+ well-educated

+ Rivera believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone, especially the poor, working class people.

+ Angelina Belhoff 1909

+ Italy = Refrescos

+ Jose Vasconcelos

+ National Preparatory School at University of Mexico

+ Creation

Flower Carrier

+ 1922 Guadalupe Marin

+ 4 years; 124 frescoes at Ministry of Public Education

+ revival of mural painting

+ Mexican Communist Party

+ Frida Kahlo 1928 &29

+ Labor Union of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors w/ David Siqueiros & Jose Clemente Orozco

Sueno, 1932, lithograph

+ 1930 = America

+ American Stock Exchange Luncheon Club & California School of Fine Arts

+ 1932 Rockefeller Center = 1933 Man at the Cossroads

+ conflict = Lenin

+ February of 1934 destroyed

+ complete mural= Man, Controller of the Universe, Mexico City

Sueno, 1932, lithograph

+ political asylum to Leo Troysky

+1940 Diego & Frida separated, divorced, remarried in December

+ Hotel del Prado; included a slogan

“God does not exist”

+ mural from public view for nine years

+ 1952 Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes

+ The Nightmare of War & Dream of Peace included Stalin and Mao Tsetung

+ July 1954 Frida Kahlo died

+ 1955 marries Emma Hurtado

+ dealer since 1946

+ operation towards the end of the year

+ cobalt treatments

+ April 1956 Mexico recuperated at the home of his friend Dolores Olmedo

                      

                                

                    

                       

+ November 24, 1957

+ heart failure

+ San Angel studio

+ buried in the Rotunda of Famous Men in Civil Pantheon of Mourning

+ Latin American folk hero

Portrait Of Natasha Gellman 1943

El Fin

por T. A. C.