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Diego Rivera:
"The Optimistic Idealist"

Rivera's famous murals:
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, Creation
Hotel del Prado, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Central Alameda
Hotel Reforma
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Man at the Crossroads
Palacio National, The Ancient Indigenous World, Great Tenochtitlan, History of Mexico
Rockefeller Center (destroyed)
Secretar�a de Educaci�n P�blica

North wall automotive panel, Detroit Mural

Diego Rivera studied painting in Mexico and Europe. He was politically active in the Mexican Communist party and provided a safe-haven for the exiled LeonTrotsky. Nevertheless, Rivera put his painting before his politics and wife Frida Kahlo.
His Calla Lillies paintings are more recognizable than his industrial murals. Albeit reproductions of these prints are too political and harsh for most people to enjoy daily.

L'uomo al bivio, Palacio de Bellas Artes

http://www.arts-history.mx/museomural.html

http://www.riveramural.org/

http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php

Information gathered from:
Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change by Shifra M. Goldman.

Diego Rivera by Pete Hamill

Diego Rivera The Detroit Industrial Murals by Linda Bank Downs

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