Jose Diego Rivera Barrientos: My Art, My Life

On December eighth of 1886, Diego Rivera was born in the mexican city of Guanajuato. During his early childhood years his gift for painting slowly developed. By the age of ten he was already attending the San Carlos Fine Arts Academy. Later on he moved on to living in Europe where he was introduced to cubism and had his first exhibitions. He returned to Mexico were he expressed his government sponsored murals that reflected his ideas …

…forms and vivid colors rescued the most important moments of Mexicos history: the land, the factory and the land workers, the customs and the popular ways of life. In 1957, Rivera at the age of seventy passed away in Mexico City. One of his greatest legacies was most likely the impact he had on Americas conception of public art. Diego Rivera, one of the great hero- figures in the history of the twenthieth-century Latin American culture.