Books with title Diego Rivera

Meet Artist Diego Rivera!Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the works of renowned artists, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ages 8-9).Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of Diego Rivera's actual works, give children a light yet realistic overview of Leonardo DaVinci's life and style.

Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a Mexican painter that was well known for his murals in Mexico City, Detroit, New York City and more. As a child, Diego enjoyed drawing on walls instead of paper, so his parents decided to install chalkboards in his bedroom which inspired him to create murals later in life. He married his art student and famed painter, Frida Kahlo, twice in 1929 and 1940. Diego’s paintings are a mixture of Cubism and the Post-Impressionism Movement which attracts attention and appreciation even today. He is notably known for painting, Man at the Crossroads.

Diego Rivera witnessed a changing world after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The Mexican muralist painter became the head of a new school of Mexican art, painting murals to explain Mexican history on behalf of his benefactors, the new socialist government of Mexico. He believed this new world needed a new art that spoke to the common people and worked with the government to turn public walls into enormous murals celebrating the nation's people, history, and culture. Learn more about this controversial figure whose desire to associate with the wealthy class that funded much of his work conflicted with his political ideals in Diego Rivera, Second Edition.