Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957), (full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez) was a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato. Diego Rivera is perhaps best known by the public world for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center.
The painting below is entitled Flower Day (1925)
Diego Rivera's Biography
Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, Mexico to a Converso family (descended from Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism). Rivera was sponsored to study art in Europe by Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, the governor of the State of Veracruz.On his arrival in Europe in 1907 Rivera initially went to study with Eduardo Chicharro in Madrid, Spain, and from there proceeded to Paris, France, to live and work with the great gathering of artists in Montparnasse, especially at La Ruche, where his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait in 1914. The circle of close friends that included further Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska (Marevna) in her painting "Homage to Friends from Montparnasse" (1962).
Paris in those years was witnessing the emergence of cubism in paintings by such eminent painters as Picasso and Braque; inspired by Cezanne. From 1913 to 1918 Rivera himself enthusiastically embraced this new school of art, as his masterly cubist paintings from this time demonstrate. His paintings began to attract attention; and was able to display them at several exhibitions.
The painting below is entitled Baile Tehunatepec (1928)
Diego Rivera's Life Continued
This painting below is entitled Nudewith Calla Lilies (1944)
A Mural by Diego Rivera: Creation (1923)
Diego Rivera's Most Famous Paintings
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Diego Rivera
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Still Life, 1913
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2 works online
Diego Rivera at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Diego Rivera
Arizona State University Art Museum
Niña Parada, 1937
Art Institute of Chicago
The Weaver
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
Enrrielando, Moscú (Sawing Rails, Moscow), 1927
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
Niña con Elotes (Girl with Ears of Corn), ca.1938
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Study for the Detroit Industry fresco
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Wounded Soldier, 1931
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Note that the JPG image for "Four Figures (Masked)" is displayed smaller than its actual size
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Diego Rivera in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Woman Nursing Child (image 27)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Agrarian Leader Zapata, 1932
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Self-Portrait
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Niño con Taco, lithograph, 1932
Virtual Museum of Canada
Paisaje Zapatista, 1915
Virtual Museum of Canada
El Río de Juchitán, 1950-59
Virtual Museum of Canada
Paisaje nocturno, 1947
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas NEW!
El grande de España (El ángel azul), 1914
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I Saw Rivera's work in Mexico City a few years ago and was spellbound by its beauty. Posted March 12, 2008 |
