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

Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in, among other places, Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Rivera had a volatile marriage with fellow Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.



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✵ 8. December 1886 – 24. November 1957
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Famous Diego Rivera Quotes

“you have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique.”

Diego Rivera

“Your engineers are your great artists and these highways are the most beautiful things I have seen in your beautiful country…Out of them and the machine will issue the style of tomorrow.”

Diego Rivera

On being enchanted by engineers in “Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals” http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1999/2/99.02.06.x.html (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)

“Here it is—the might, the power, the energy, the sadness, the glory, the youthfulness of our lands.”

Diego Rivera

On the layout of New York City (as quoted in the book The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera https://books.google.com/books?id=Fmi5J6Q_wzIC&printsec=frontcover&dq)

“When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.”

Diego Rivera

On making your own artistic opportunities in the book Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth https://books.google.com/books?id=KpZRDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq

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