Diego Rivera

Diego Mara de la Concepcin Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodrguez, known as Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in 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 City. Rivera had a volatile marriage with fellow Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, to a welltodo family, the son of Mara del Pilar Barrientos and Diego Rivera Acosta. Diego had a twin brother named Carlos, who died two years after they were born. Rivera was said to have Converso ancestry . Rivera wrote in 1935 My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life. Rivera began drawing at the age of three, a year after his twin brothers death. He had been caught drawing on the walls. His parents, rather than punishing him, installed chalkboards and canvas on the walls. As an adult, he married Angelina Beloff in 1911, and she gave birth to a son, Diego . Maria VorobieffStebelska gave birth to a daughter named Marika in 1918 or 1919 when Rivera was married to Angelina . He married his second wife, Guadalupe Marn, 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

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