Diego Rivera was a large- then- life painter who spent most of his time in the United States, Europe and Mexico. Diego was no Picasso but he was great painter especially in the twentieth century. His painting inspired both the nations art and on the international art world as well. His type of painting was frescoes, which are mural painting done on clean plaster. Diego want to find new form of painting, one that can express difficulty of what other painters could not do or not want to do. He wanted to be different than other painters, he wanted his paintings to have meaning. He would not find this type of painting until his trip to Italy where he would find his originality, in which he would be known for. Diego began to use his frescoes painting …show more content…
He was no saint was known to be a womanizer but when he meet Frida Kahlo, he fell in love with her. Frida and Diego both painter in their own way also fought for a Communist party. His painting made him famous, it would clearly affect U.S and other part of the world in many good and bad ways. I have researched Diego childhood and inspiration, his most famous murals and his marriage to Frida Kahlo to understand why just one person change the way we look at public art and art at all. Diego was born before his twin brothers Jose Carlos Maria. Jose “Diego” Maria was born in December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico (Kettenmann, 7). Diego brother Jose Carlos Maria would only live until his eighteen month birthday. As for his parents they came from a very unique family. Andrea Kettenmann stated that Diego “grandfather was a Spanish nobleman who fled to Mexico from the republic movement in the Nineteenth century. His maternal grandmother is said to be half-Indian blood and Jewish” (Kettenmann, 8). His father Diego Rivera Acosta was an engineer, who own several silver mines and a teacher. His mother Maria Del Pilar Barrientos was Mexican and half Indian, also a teacher. As a kid Diego …show more content…
He also had paintings that started movements and inspiration as well. One painting in particular was “Detroit Industry” where he want to paint a mural to honor the city's assembly base and labor force of the 1930’s. This was a big deal to Diego and Ford Motors Company to be able to use this painting to help society understand how their company work. This Mural would be twenty-seven Frescoes, together it would combine a theme unity. Two of the biggest Mural would be on the north and south wall at the Detroit Institute of art in the courtyard. The mural would be reflect of the workers at the “Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan” (Zamora, 42). Previous from painting this mural Diego began to observe what Ford Motor Company was trying to introduce. In this time Ford Motor was trying to show their advanced technology in which they had assembly lines, where no man would have to make parts of cars by hand anymore. Diego soon discovered that Detroit had factories within factories trying to form everything from cement to steel. This was where Diego wanted to show and capture every part of what Detroit was accomplishing in that time. This took Diego almost eight month to complete. Before Diego could finish this piece, he was paid to paint a mural in the lobby of Rockefeller Center, in New York. This piece would attack Diego meaning to his painting, claiming that his painting had