One on One

Hi!

  

 Today, I want to talk about Diego Rivera. He is a Mexican muralist.  I’ve chosen this artist because I admire him so much. The muralist movement was born in Mexico after the Mexican Revolution and its objective was to communicate revolutionary ideas for popular masses. In this context, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros y José Clemente Orozco were the most important exponents. I first heard of Rivera when I was in school. My art teacher made me study him it because she knew I loved muralism.

  

Between 1930 and 1934 Diego lived in USA. In this time, he was hired by the Rockefeller Center of New York for to paint a big mural in this place. This mural was called “man at the crossroads” and in it, Rivera painted Lenin, Marx and Trotsky faces’, as proletarian faces. I like so much his role in the revolutionary process as an artist.

  I’d also like to talk to him about this moment and what he was thinking (!) and how was Rockefeller’s face when he saw this. I’d also ask about his relationship with Frida Kahlo, because she’s another important artist and feminist Mexican woman. They had a difficult love, and I want know details about this (jaja).