Diego RiveraCubist painter and muralist

1886-1957

Niñez y Familia• Guanajuato, Mexico• Twin- died at age 2• Began drawing on walls

o No punishment, instead encouragement

• 3 marriages- 4 children

Artistic Background • 1907- studied in Europe

o Cubism, Frescos

• 1920- return to Mexicoo Frescos and muralso Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptorso Mexican Communist Party

• 1927- Moscow, Russia

• 1930-1933-United Stateso Industrial life

Influences • Politics

(communism)• Mexican

society after 1910 revolution

• Lovers• Large, simple

figures- bold colors

Leading Ladies • Don Juan Character• Wife 1- Angelina Beloff

(1911)o Son- Diego

• Maria Stebelska (1918)o Daughter- Marika

• Wife 2- Guadalupe Marin (1922)o Daughter- Rutho Daughter- Guadalupe

• Wife 3- Frida Kahlo (1929)o Divorced in 1939o Remarried 1940

United States ‘Fame’• 1933- Rockefeller

Building• Communist leaders

painted with US founding fathers

• Destroyed/Covered up?

• Heightened popularityo Detroito NYC

Rockefeller Reproduction

Leon Trotsky, Friedrich Engels and Karl

Marx

Politics in Painting

Palacio Nacional, Mexico City