Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Diego Rivera is a Mexican Muralist. His murals depict the working class toiling at back breaking work. One mural he created, Detroit Industry 19320-33, is located at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rivera visited the USA periodically from 1930-1940 creating murals for public locations and galleries. The rest of his work is located in his home country of Mexico.
Rivera is considered one of the greatest Mexican painters of the 20th century. He reintroduced FRESCO painting into the mainstream art world.
A life long Marxist, Rivera saw fresco an antidote to the elite walls of galleries and museums. Throughout the twenties his fame grew with a number of large murals depicting scenes from Mexican history. His work appealed to the people’s interest in the history of technology and progress. The desire to understand progress was visible in the growing industrial societies of the 1930s, and Rivera saw the workers’ struggle as a symbol of the fragile political ground on which that capitalism trod.
Rivera died at the age of 57. His greatest legacy was his impact on America’s conception of public art. In depicting scenes of American life on public buildings, Rivera provided the first inspiration for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s WPA program.
Coming Up next...his wife FRIDA KAHLO.
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