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Related Artists. Jose Guadalupe Posada - Mykhailo Boychuk - Jose Clemente Orozco - Amedeo Modigliani - After spending some time studying in Italy, where he experimented with frescoes, Rivera returned to Mexico, where he became involved with a government mural program in Shortly after Rivera joined the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors and he started to only paint his murals in fresco.
Rivera believed that painting murals on the walls of public buildings made art accessible to the everyday man. His murals focused on telling stories that dealt with Mexican society and referenced the revolution of It featured large forms, bright colors and recurring images of farmers, laborers, popular Mexican figures and depictions of earth. A member of the Mexican Communist party, Rivera begin to attack capitalism, the established elite and the church in his work.
In , he travelled to the Soviet Union as part of a delegation of Mexican Communist party officials. He became increasingly seen as a controversial figure, and in Mexico some of his murals were hidden or removed because of their nature.
At Madrid's Prada Museum, he familiarized himself with the paintings of such Spanish masters as El Greco , Francisco Goya and Diego Velazquez , all of whom would influence his artistic development.
Rivera showed six paintings in the exhibit sponsored by The Society of Independent Artists in Paris, including the realistic portrait, "Head of a Breton Woman. However, when Rivera returned to Paris after a brief visit to Mexico, his style underwent a significant shift toward Cubism, which was enjoying its heyday in Europe during the second decade of the 20th century.
The Cubists sought to portray multiple dimensions of a single subject through the use of geometric forms or intersecting planes. Under the influence of Pablo Picasso and the recently deceased Paul Cezanne , Rivera's paintings became progressively more abstract. View of Toledo from contains both recognizable buildings and Cubist elements in the landscape while "Portrait of Oscar Miestchaninoff" from the following year clearly illustrates the Cubist influence on Rivera's style.
By , the artists had fully embraced Cubism in his art, as evidenced by such works as "Woman at a Well" and Sailor at Breakfast.
He submitted works to the Salon d'Automne exhibit where the likes of Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Andre Lhote had shown their work over the previous years, attracting both negative reactions and the positive attention of the art community.
Motherhood: Angelina and the Child from is among Rivera's last purely Cubist paintings. His artistic development headed in a fresh direction as the artist focused on recent political events such as the Mexican Revolution and the Russian Revolution of , bringing his ideological views to the forefront. His paintings began to portray the working class combined with elements of his Mexican heritage.
A trip through Italy in had piqued the artist's interest in Renaissance frescoes, and when he returned to Mexico the following year, he became involved in mural painting.
Rivera joined a group of artists, including muralist Jose Clemente Orozco and Mexican realist David Alfaro Siqueiros, in a government-sponsored mural program. Rivera's first foray into the genre, Creation , which he painted on a wall in the National Preparatory School auditorium in Mexico City, depicts a heavenly host with Renaissance haloes.
The artist also joined the Mexican Communist Society during that first year of his repatriation. He began a series of frescoes later in that focused on Mexican society and the country's revolutionary past, entitled "Ballad of the Proletarian Revolution," that he would not complete until The finished work, consisting of over frescoes covering more than 5, square feet, is installed in Mexico City's Secretariat of Public Education building.
By now the artist was well into his 30s, and the Diego Rivera painting style had come into its own, featuring large figures with simplified lines and rich colors.
Many of his scenes tell the stories of workers such as miners, farmers, industrial laborers, and peasants. His paintings of Flower Carrier and Flower Vendor are among his best known. The artist took part in a delegation to the Soviet Union in to celebrate the year anniversary of the October Revolution. While in Moscow, Rivera met Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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