Diego Rivera

Prometheus’ love and preference to mankind as he selflessly gives fire, or the knowledge of the gods (and therefore civilization) to humanity. Nelson Rockefeller sought out the famous Mexican painter Diego Rivera to paint a mural, Man at the Crossroads, in the past RCS building lobby. However, Rivera was publically socialist and had painted an image of the communist leader Vladimir Lenin into the fresco. When he refused to remove the image, the current Rockefeller had it covered, destroyed and…

In the featured mural “Man at the Crossroads,” the artist, Diego Rivera, justifies his thesis on a world in utter social turmoil. During the early 1900s, social upheaval spread across the world like wildfire, with a particular focus on WWI and WWII as a method of change in government. The mural addresses issues that Rivera has seen as not only his political views, but a means to move forward to the future. Therefore, Rivera addresses this fact in the title of his piece, there is a crossroad…

Freedom of Expression When we look at Veronese’s painting, Feast in the House of Levi we see a lot going on. From scruffy dogs, man picking their teeth, men dressed in foreign soldier uniforms to midgets and drunks, (PG 673). Which caused an uproar in people’s opinions. Many were simply offended that he chose to make such a spectacle of this religious, holy, and iconic scene of history (PG 673). While others did not feel the ungodly and wicked surroundings around Jesus were justified and right,…

For instance, in 1922, she met and fell in love with Diego Rivera who was a married man; however, Kahlo was not sure of how to deal with his emotions. In 1925, she had an accident that altered much of her later life as it affected her pelvis making it impossible to conceive. Therefore, her life was full of pain because she could not fulfill her motherhood dreams that she captured through paintings.…

Diego Rivera’s The Hammock or La hamaca, is a portrait that was painted in 1956 of Dolores Olmedo’s daughter, along with a friend of hers. The two are supposed to be studying, hence the fallen book by), but instead they rest in a hammock in front of the mesmerizing landscape of Acapulco. This artwork is very appealing to the eye due to the vibrant colors and many other factors. You will find that when looking at the Visual Elements of Art and Principles of Design, Rivera accurately uses line,…

Frida Kahlo, who was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, Mexico, was a Mexican artist known for self-portraits, which had a deeper meaning. Frida Kahlo used oil, Masonite, and canvas for her self-portrait paintings. She died on July 13, 1954, in Coyoacan, Mexico, due to a pulmonary embolism. The art styles of Frida Kahlo were surrealism and realism. Surrealism is an art form when a painting has unrelated images in a very strange way. Realism is a style of painting are depicted as they are…

Pollock battled acute alcoholism. He worked for the WPA during the Great Depression. His work became highly publicized (Life). He enjoyed the work of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco (American Decades). At one time, he was a “communist of sorts” (Sylvester 398). Diego Rivera was affiliated with the communist party. (Block) Orozco, while not a communist, was friends with many. (Wye 125) Pollock was a proponent of Abstract Expressionism, and his untraditional art style made him the subject of…

ways for coping with their own adversity, however, with more than half of the population being illiterate, many turned to art as a form of representation in order to express their point of views. Artists such as Frida Kahlo, and muralists like Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquerios all intertwine their own…

Art is something that is created, viewed, and accepted differently among people. Everyone has the ability to create art with whatever intentions they desire the art to speak. Art can be a hobby, a job, or something that you do simply because it’s all you can do. Frida Kahlo falls within the latter. Frida Kahlo went through many tragedies in her life that many people would not have even wanted to live through, let alone survive them. Frida’s perseverance amazes many people today, including myself…

Rivera went on a scholarship in Europe for painting, and when he returned to Mexico after the revolution he was surprised by the how much it had changed. Although there were still a mass of semi-illiterate people, so the education minister named Jose Vasconcelos gathered many painters, including Rivera, in order to create a huge mural that would reshape their ideas about Mexico and its history. The Union…