Diego Rivera, born in 1886, was one of the leaders of the Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920s. A member of the Communist party, he created popular political murals throughout Mexico that often ...

In the 1920s, the Mexican government, newly formed after the recent revolution, started to employ painters for public art ...

Photograph shows Diego Rivera painting his mural "Man at the Crossroads" at Rockefeller ... Diego Rivera was born in 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico in a family of modest means. From a very early ...

But their fascination with Mexico’s pre-Hispanic spirituality is palpable through their work. In Rivera ... on his murals and designed the Anahuacalli for their exhibition. “Diego had ...

With the death of Diego Rivera in Mexico City last week at 70 ... one of architecture’s more intriguing curiosities. His murals are his lasting monument. Provocative at worst, or blatantly ...

The National Palace holds the federal executive branch of the Mexican government and sits along Mexico City's main ... Its highlights are several Diego Rivera murals painted in panoramic style ...

Painting in Mexico that included the words "God does not exist ... forms the National Institute of Fine Arts' (INBA) Commission for Mural-Painting. Diego started work on a mural, Man at the Crossroads ...