Rivera (Basic Art Series)

Opis

Rivera (Basic Art Series). Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo, advocate and adversary of Stalin`s Soviet Union, and liberator and traitor of Leon Trotsky. Vibrant, graphic, and often monumental, Rivera`s paintings carry the same live political and passionate charge as his personal biography.

Fusing European influences such as Cubism with a socialist ideology and an exaltation of Mexico`s indigenous and popular heritage, he created a new iconography for art history and for his country. He became one of the most important figures in the Mex