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: This decision proved costly to his reputation as a modernist, but not to the evolution    of his aesthetics (Dawn 106) The situation, however, forced Diego to go back to Mexico on July of 1921. Diego Rivera's style, was the product of the influence of many different art styles, such as cubism, impressionism,    classical European style and Aztec art. His murals had a busyness that remind us the Baroque, covering Churches    with images and details. Some critics referred to Diego's particular style as "agoraphobic" because he    seemed to be afraid of having open space in his paintings (Espejo 66). In his murals he uses many symbols that    come from Aztec codices. 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: