(1886-1957) Mexican painter who designed many murals for educational and public buildings
Diego Rivera (born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez,
December 8,
1886 –
November 24,
1957) was a communist and world-famous
Mexican painter influenced by
Cézanne. Born in
Guanajuato City, Rivera's large wall works in fresco, as well as those by
Orozco, and
Siqueiros, helped established the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted
murals in
Mexico City,
Chapingo,
Cuernavaca,
San Francisco,
Detroit,
New York City. His retrospective exhibition at the
Museum of Modern Art in
New York City was their second. Rivera paintings are exhibited by many of the greatest museums. When his patron discovered in 1933 that Rivera had painted a portrait of
Lenin in the mural
Man at the Crossroads at
Rockefeller Center,
Nelson Rockefeller angrily insisted the figure be painted out. Rivera refused and Rockefeller fired him and destroyed the unfinished work (dramatized by the
Cradle Will Rock and
Frida movies).
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