Diego Rivera,1886-1957, Likable Mexico painting artist, one of the most celebrated mural artist in 20th Century, Be regarded as Mexico's national cherish character. As a great mural artist, Diego Rivera well Balanced the relationship between the frescoes in the content, form and ideas, Showed admirable skill to portray the image, color scheme and space processing.And based on this, Diego developed his personal style which is a compound of Cubism, primitive and pre-Colombian sculpture painting style. Rivera's work has been tour exhibited all over the world.
Rivera was born in 1886 in Guanajuato State Mexico whom showed admirable talent on painting since schooldays. When his is a 10-year-old boy,he was sent to San Carlos Institute to learn painting.Stay there for 7 years and graduated in 1902. The biggest impact on him is the great Mexican printmaker Posada . Subsequently, Rivera went to Madrid and Paris to learn the art of painting. Since 1922, Diego rivera began to paint murals for the Ministry of Education, the National Palace and other buildings. In 1929, assigned by the invitation of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, Rivera created a set of murals on Mexican colonial history.
He wen to USA on 1931, the next year, His second retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, gaind great success. Many U.S. media gave a sound evaluation on this exhibition also on his works, this build good credit among the yong arising artist also the art colloctors.These successful pushed Rivera to the status of world-class master.
In 1934 Diego Rivera returned to Mexico City, 1922 to 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, check bingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, New York City.
Diego Rivera is one of the initiators of the Mexican mural movement in the 1920s, Particularly for his description of Mexican culture and history affairs. It is Rivera who make fresco techniques get a truthfully renaissance. Rivera's works characterized with its simplest form, the huge size and bold blocks of color. Rivera judge that art can be a social or political tool, thus he becomes controvercial becasue of the socialism marks in his paintings.
Rivera's wife is a famous female painter Frida Kahlo. They married 1929 and divorced 1939, and then re-married 1940. Their mating was called the "combination of elephant and a dove "- Rivera fat big, while Frida slight thin. Their marriage is more because of art while not feeling. Since They began their romance, Frida began to follow the style of Rivera. Rivera was the only one whom really identify with Frida," Her painted caustic and gentle, as hard as steel, but delicate and beautiful as Butterfly; cute and such a sweet smile, but deep and brutal as the life of misery"
Rivera has created a lot of work, its representative works of Mexican history, the "crossroads" and "night of the rich," the night of the poor. "
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