Diego Rivera
Mexican mural master
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) was a Mexican painter known for large-scale murals depicting Mexican history, industry, and social struggle.
His work helped establish muralism as a major art movement.
Rivera's bold, colorful style celebrated workers and indigenous peoples while criticizing capitalism.
He was married to artist Frida Kahlo; their turbulent relationship has become as famous as their art.
- GuanajuatoCentral Mexican state
- ParisFrance's chief city
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- PicassoSpanish cubism co-founder
Modigliani · Detroit · New York · California · affair · marriage · exile · controversial
Ancient Mexican civilization
- TenochtitlanAztec empire's central city
- QuetzalcoatlAztec feathered serpent god
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- pre-ColumbianAmericas before 1492
Zapata · Mexican Revolution · folk art · Day of the Dead · calla lilies · agrarian · campesino · mestizo
Wall-applied artwork
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- wall paintingArt on interior surface
- public artAccessible outdoor creative works
- monumentalExceptionally large or significant
scaffolding · Rockefeller Center · panorama · large-scale · commission · iconography · social realism · figurative
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
revolutionary · worker · labor · capitalism · industrial · anti-fascist · Trotsky · Lenin
Wall-coating paste
- pigmentColor-imparting material
- giornataItalian word for day
- cartoonAnimated or humorous illustration
- pounceSudden attack leap
brushwork · palette · color · perspective · composition · layering · wet plaster · lime
Frida Kahlo
- GuanajuatoCentral Mexican state
- ParisFrance's chief city
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
Picasso · Modigliani · Detroit · New York · California · affair · marriage · exile · controversial · flamboyant
Aztec
Ancient Mexican civilization
- TenochtitlanAztec empire's central city
- QuetzalcoatlAztec feathered serpent god
- indigenousOriginating in a region
pre-Columbian · Zapata · Mexican Revolution · folk art · Day of the Dead · calla lilies · agrarian · campesino · mestizo · tortilla
mural
Wall-applied artwork
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- wall paintingArt on interior surface
- public artAccessible outdoor creative works
monumental · scaffolding · Rockefeller Center · panorama · large-scale · commission · iconography · social realism · figurative · narrative
Marxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
class struggle · revolutionary · worker · labor · capitalism · industrial · anti-fascist · Trotsky · Lenin · hammer and sickle
plaster
Wall-coating paste
pounce · brushwork · palette · color · perspective · composition · layering · wet plaster · lime · sand
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- Latin AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba
- Latin Americanatango, samba, cumbia, mariachi, bossa nova
- Latin American FiguresSimon Bolivar, Che Guevara, Eva Peron, Lionel Messi, Frida Kahlo
- muralsmural, muralists, mural painting, wall paintings, fresco
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
Diego RiveraPiet Mondrian
Kazimir Malevich · abstract expressionist · Mark Rothko · Jackson Pollock · minimalist