Diego Rivera

Painter

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico on December 8th, 1886 and is the Painter. At the age of 70, Diego Rivera biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
December 8, 1886
Nationality
Mexico
Place of Birth
Guanajuato, Mexico
Death Date
Nov 24, 1957 (age 70)
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius
Profession
Artist, Painter
Diego Rivera Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

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Diego Rivera Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Education
San Carlos Academy
Diego Rivera Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Angelina Beloff, ​ ​(m. 1911; div. 1921)​, Guadalupe Marín, ​ ​(m. 1922; div. 1928)​, Frida Kahlo, ​ ​(m. 1929; div. 1939)​, Frida Kahlo, ​ ​(m. 1940; died 1954)​, Emma Hurtado ​(m. 1955)​
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Siblings
Marika Rivera (daughter), Ruth Rivera Marín (daughter)
Diego Rivera Career

In 1920, urged by Alberto J. Pani, the Mexican ambassador to France, Rivera left France and traveled through Italy studying its art, including Renaissance frescoes. After José Vasconcelos became Minister of Education, Rivera returned to Mexico in 1921 to become involved in the government sponsored Mexican mural program planned by Vasconcelos. See also Mexican muralism. The program included such Mexican artists as José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo, and the French artist Jean Charlot. In January 1922, he painted – experimentally in encaustic – his first significant mural Creation in the Bolívar Auditorium of the National Preparatory School in Mexico City while guarding himself with a pistol against right-wing students.

In the autumn of 1922, Rivera participated in the founding of the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors, and later that year he joined the Mexican Communist Party (including its Central Committee). His murals, subsequently painted in fresco only, dealt with Mexican society and reflected the country's 1910 Revolution. Rivera developed his own native style based on large, simplified figures and bold colors with an Aztec influence clearly present in murals at the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City begun in September 1922, intended to consist of one hundred and twenty-four frescoes, and finished in 1928. Rivera's art work, in a fashion similar to the steles of the Maya, tells stories. The mural En el Arsenal (In the Arsenal) shows on the right-hand side Tina Modotti holding an ammunition belt and facing Julio Antonio Mella, in a light hat, and Vittorio Vidali behind in a black hat. However, the En el Arsenal detail shown does not include the right-hand side described nor any of the three individuals mentioned; instead it shows the left-hand side with Frida Kahlo handing out munitions. Leon Trotsky lived with Rivera and Kahlo for several months while exiled in Mexico. Some of Rivera's most famous murals are featured at the National School of Agriculture (Chapingo Autonomous University of Agriculture) at Chapingo near Texcoco (1925–1927), in the Cortés Palace in Cuernavaca (1929–30), and the National Palace in Mexico City (1929–30, 1935).

Rivera painted murals in the main hall and corridor at the Chapingo Autonomous University of Agriculture (UACh). He also painted a fresco mural titled Tierra Fecundada (Fertile Land in English) in the university's chapel between 1923 and 1927. Fertile Land depicts the revolutionary struggles of Mexico's peasant (farmers) and working classes (industry) in part through the depiction of hammer and sickle joined by a star in the soffit of the chapel. In the mural, a "propagandist" points to another hammer and sickle. The mural features a woman with an ear of corn in each hand, which art critic Antonio Rodriguez describes as evocative of the Aztec goddess of maize in his book Canto a la Tierra: Los murales de Diego Rivera en la Capilla de Chapingo.

The corpses of revolutionary heroes Emiliano Zapata and Otilio Montano are shown in graves, their bodies fertilizing the maize field above. A sunflower in the center of the scene "glorifies those who died for an ideal and are reborn, transfigured, into the fertile cornfield of the nation", writes Rodrigues. The mural also depicts Rivera's wife Guadalupe Marin as a fertile nude goddess and their daughter Guadalupe Rivera y Marin as a cherub.

The mural was slightly damaged in an earthquake, but has since been repaired and touched up, remaining in pristine form.

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Frida Kahlo's dramas have eclipsed her art, prompting the opening of a new exhibit

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 3, 2023
Becoming Frida, a three-part BBC2 documentary, aims to demonstrate how important an artist Kahlo was, as well as the possibility that her husband, Diego Rivera, may have assisted her in suicide (right, her self-portrait with Diego). Becoming Frida, a BBC2 documentary that aims to show how important an artist Kahlo was, as well as the fact that her husband Diego Rivera may have aided her in suicide.

Chloe Sevigny transforms into a fashion icon C.Z. Guest for Season 2 Feud: Capote and the Women

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 2, 2023
On Thursday afternoon, Chlo Sevigny was seen on the Manhattan set of FX's Feud: Capote and the Women. To more accurately represent fashion icon C. Z., the Russian Doll actress, 48, wore a platinum-blonde wig, brilliant red lipstick, and a long blue coat tied at the waist. As she was 7 years old, she was a guest. Having been painted by Diego Rivera, Salvador Dale, Kenneth Paul Block, and Andy Warhol, the socialite (born Lucy Douglas Cochrane) was a muse to many.

Martin Mobarak, a NFT fanatic, is under scrutiny after a failed frida Kahlo drawing

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 9, 2022
In July, Martin Mobarak, a Mexican-Lebanese businessman based in Miami, set fire to a $10 million Frida Kahlo sketch as part of a bid to sell 10,000 NFTs of the drawing for $4,000 each. He has sold four so far for less than the asking price, according to the New York Times, and he is now facing criminal charges for burning a national treasure. He could be sentenced to ten years in prison and be compelled to pay the art work. In addition, if the sketch Mobarak burned was fake, he could be charged with fraud. When asked by The New York Times if the fire was accidental, Mobarak was noncommittal. 'I like to say that I don't regret it,' he said.