Title: A Visual Biography of Diego Rivera
Headings: Visual Biography of Diego Rivera
Diego:
Infancy:
Parents:
Diego goes to Europe:
Angelina Belloff:
Artistic style:
Mural Art:
Diego gets involved in mural art:
Creation:
Guadalupe Marín:
Frida Kahlo:
Religion:
Contradictions:
Communist party:
National Palace:
Death:
Anahuacalli:

Content: For example, he uses the colors and figures of idols, as well as the way in which the    Indians used images to narrate myths and historical events. In some of his work we can see a use of space that    comes from cubism (in Creation, for example) and a use of perspective that comes from his early classical studies. In the sketches of the murals we can see how he used architectural skills as well as a lot of geometry. Rivera    was a very skilled painter, and as José Vasconcelos says, "everything could be forgiven to Diego because    he knew how to paint with exact drawing and perfect coloring when he wanted" (Vasconcelos 227). Mural Art: The birth of Mexican mural art in the 1920's was one of the most revolutionary events the government has    done for the country because it recognized the power of political art. The new regime had a general consciousness    of the power of art as an agent of change and subversion. The movement of Mexican mural art was a new kind of Modernism,    it did not use the modern styles, like cubism and surrealism. Instead, its innovative quality was to go back