1. Diego Rivera Cubist painter and muralist 1886-1957

2. Niñez y Familia Guanajuato, Mexico Twin- died at age 2 Began drawing on walls o No punishment, instead encouragement 3 marriages- 4 children

3. Artistic Background 1907- studied in Europe o Cubism, Frescos 1920- return to Mexico o Frescos and murals o Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors o Mexican Communist Party 1927- Moscow, Russia 1930-1933-United States o Industrial life

4. Influences Politics (communism) Mexican society after 1910 revolution Lovers Large, simple figures- bold colors

5. Leading Ladies Don Juan Character Wife 1- Angelina Beloff (1911) o Son- Diego Maria Stebelska (1918) o Daughter- Marika Wife 2- Guadalupe Marin (1922) o Daughter- Ruth o Daughter- Guadalupe Wife 3- Frida Kahlo (1929) o Divorced in 1939 o Remarried 1940

6. United States ‘Fame’ 1933- Rockefeller Building Communist leaders painted with US founding fathers Destroyed/Covered up? Heightened popularity o Detroit o NYC

7. Rockefeller Reproduction

8. Leon Trotsky, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

9. Politics in Painting

10. Palacio Nacional, Mexico City