Diego Rivera

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In 1910 Mexico began a political revolution populated by mythical figures such as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, destined to make it a country full of ferment and ready to host exiles from Europe: among them Lev Trotsky, exiled from the Soviet Union and later assassinated here by one of Stalin’s agents.

André Breton, who tried to spread surrealist ideas.
Remaining neutral during the Second World War, Mexico strengthened its character as a destination for European refugees. Despite the often bloody events of the revolutionary process, the government decided to support with large investments an art with a strongly political and national character.

The major protagonists of the moment were José Clemente Orozco, the most tormented figure and the only one who did not have a European education.
Diego Rivera (1886-1957), who instead had spent many years in Paris and was closely familiar with both the language of the Avant-garde and that of ancient Italian mural painting.

The movement felt the need to create a manifesto like those written by the European avant-gardes: the Three Appeals published in 1921 by Siqueiros. The painting of the Muralists was expressed in narrative and heroic works which, between the 1920s and the 1950s, filled the major buildings of the country. The protagonist of these works was the Mexican people, from the Spanish conquest to the economic oppression of the American gringos.

The influence of the avant-gardes and in particular of Picasso and figurative Surrealism is associated with that of the frescoes of Giotto and Masaccio.
The greatest interest of the phenomenon lies in having brought attention for the first time to contemporary art from a continent that was not Europe or North America.

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera, was an important Mexican painter.
His large frescoes helped create the mural movement in Mexico and in international art.

His third wife was the fellow Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, with whom he had an unstable relationship that continued until his death.

Because of his importance in the history of the country’s art, the Mexican government declared Rivera’s works “historical monuments”.

Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo and Cuernavaca in Mexico, and in San Francisco, Detroit and New York City.

In 1931 a retrospective of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; this was before he completed his series of 27 murals known as Detroit Industry Murals.