*The muralist movement arose from the hand of Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente OrozcoWhen Diego decided to found the painters union together, this after returning from a stay in Europe.
*Two of his first works under the flag of muralism occurred in the building of the Ministry of Public Education, and at the Chapingo National School of Agriculture. For many critics, what is embodied in the latter is the best sample of his work.
*The narrative of its mural in the National Palace idealizes the Pre -Hispanic cultures In front of the Spanish conquerors, while the sense of liberation by the European colony is emphasized, and is put in the center of the national identity to the indigenous.
*In addition to his national work, he also painted in the Detroit Arts Institute, and in the Rockefeller Center in New York. However, this last job, The man at the crossroadsit was destroyed because Rivera included in the work a figure of the Soviet Lenin. Years later, around 1934, Rivera did the entire mural now in the Palace of Fine Arts, here in Mexico, under the name the controller man of the universe.
*Sleep of a Sunday afternoon In La Alameda it was painted in 1947, as part of One of Rivera's latest works. The mural was also involved in controversy for including the phrase «God does not exist» between one of the characters.
*Before his death, He donated to Mexico the building built by him, the Anahuacalli Museum todaywhich retains its pre -Columbian art collections.
*Among his work, in addition to the mural, there are also easel work with purely Mexican characters and scenes of everyday life. For example, pieces such as the Pinole Seller, Flower Loader, La Niña with Alcatraces, Flower Selling, among many others. At the same time, he made portraits of figures of culture and the national show, such as Pita Amor, Dolores Olmedo, Dolores del Río and María Félix.
- He was married five timestwo of them with Frida Kahlo. However, she maintained various romances even with the younger sister of the Mexican painter. Regarding his fame of Donjuán, he came to say: “I have always been attributed to me relationships that I have not had, which I do not complain. Thus the relationships that I have really had, ”have never come to light.”
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