Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1866 - November 24 1957) was a Mexican painter nationality. Born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929 - 1939 and 1940-1954).


This is the work of Diego Rivera paintings

Diego Rivera painting

Diego Rivera painting of flowers

Biography

Diego Rivera works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals on the walls, among others, in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.


Diego Rivera was a descendant of Spanish nobility on his father's side. Diego has a twin brother named Carlos, who died two years after their birth. Ten years of age, Rivera studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He was sponsored to study in Europe by Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, the governor of the State of Veracruz.
After arriving in Europe in 1907, Rivera initially went to study with Eduardo Chicharro in Madrid, Spain, and from there went to Paris, France, to live and work with a large gathering of artists in Montparnasse, especially at La Ruche, where his friend Amedeo Modigliani began painting in 1914.


Closest friends Diego Rivera included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, and Modigliani Amadeo Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, for posterity by marie-Stebelska Vorobieff (Marevna) in "Homage to a Friend of Montparnasse "paintings (1962).


In the years in Paris Diego Rivera witnessed the beginning of cubism in paintings by leading artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. From 1913 to 1917, Rivera enthusiastically in the new school of art. Around 1917, inspired by the paintings of Paul Cézanne's, Rivera shifted toward Post-Impressionism with simple shapes and patches of vivid color. His paintings began to attract attention, and he was able to show his paintings in several exhibitions.