Diego Rivera

    When I first glanced at this piece of art work it cought my heart. It goes back to where i was in Afghanistan and when women were treated like slaves. They had to do everything, cook clean and take care of every house member whom was a male. It was a very hurt ful moment in my life to see my mother go thrue those struggles, which for I was young therefor I didn't have to do work but i did a little to help my mother. This art shows that a woman trying so hard to pick up and hold the item for which ever use.

     He was a Mexican painter who produced murals on social themes. Between 1907 and 1921 he studied painting in Europe. Rivera was descended, on his mother's side, from Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism, and, on his father's side, from Spanish nobility. From the age of ten, Rivera studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He was sponsored to continue study in Europe by Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, the governor of the State of Veracruz.

     After, in Europe in 1907, Rivera initially went to study with Eduardo Chicharro in Madrid, Spain, and from there went to Paris, France, to live and work with the great gathering of artists in Montparnasse, especially at La Ruche, where his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait in 1914. His circle of close friends, which included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amadeo Modigliani and Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska, Marevna in her painting "Homage to Friends from Montparnasse," 1962.

     In those years, Paris was witnessing the beginning of cubism in paintings by such eminent painters as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. From 1913 to 1917, Rivera enthusiastically embraced this new school of art. Around 1917, inspired by Paul Cézanne's paintings, Rivera shifted toward Post-Impressionism with simple forms and large patches of vivid colors. His paintings began to attract attention, and he was able to display them at several exhibitions.

     He concentrated on creating large frescoes portraying the history and social problems of Mexico. Rivera also painted many oils and watercolours. His time in Europe enriched his style. Diego Rivera was married to the artist Frida Kahlo. Rivera remained a central force in the development of a national art in Mexico throughout his life. In 1957, at the age of seventy, Rivera died in Mexico City.