Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, also known as Diego Rivera is known by being a Mexican painter and who’s frescoes helped with the Mexican mural movement.

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. Most of his other painted murals are also located in Mexico city, New York, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, and Detroit.

Rivera was nationally born in Guanajuato, Mexico and had a twin brother named Carlos, who then dies two years after they were born. Rivera began drawing at the age of three, a year after his twin brother’s death. He had been caught drawing on the walls. His parents, rather than punishing him, installed chalkboards and canvas on the walls.

At the age of ten, Rivera studied at the art Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City and also studied in Europe, Paris, and Spain.

As found on Wikipedia, “As an adult, he married Angelina Beloff in 1911, and she gave birth to a son, Diego (1916–1918). Maria Vorobieff-Stebelska gave birth to a daughter named Marika in 1918 or 1919 when Rivera was married to Angelina.

He married his second wife, Guadalupe Marín, in June 1922, with whom he had two daughters: Ruth and Guadalupe. He was still married when he met art student Frida Kahlo. They married on August 21, 1929 when he was 42 and she was 22.

Their mutual infidelities and his violent temper led to divorce in 1939, but they remarried December 8, 1940 in San Francisco. Rivera later married Emma Hurtado, his agent since 1946, on July 29, 1955, one year after Kahlo’s death.”

Here are some of Diego Rivera’s most known art work:

“The Flower Seller”

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“Tortillas: a cultural history”

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“National Palace”

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“Dream on a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda park”

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Diego Rivera