Creativity And Art : Diego Rivera

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and well-documented artists of the twentieth century. Picasso, unlike most painters, is even more special because he did not confine himself to canvas, but also produced sculpture, poetry, and ceramics in profusion. Although much is known about this genius, there is still a lust after more knowledge concerning Picasso, his life and the creative forces that motivated him. This information can be obtained only through a careful study of the events that played out during his lifetime and the ways in which they manifested themselves in his

Carlos Merida was born in Guatemala December 2, 1891 and from 1910 to 1914 he traveled around Europe to study art and get experience with a mixture of avant-garde artists. In 1914, Carlos became attracted to the new movement of artists that had arisen in Mexico that was inspired by the Mexican Revolution that was taking place (The Biography.com Editors). His style was unique from other Mexican murals, but his subject matter consisted of the same subjects, the Mexican Revolution. He was the first of the movement to fuse the European styles he had learned, like Cubism and Abstract, to the Latin American themes. Most Mexican murals were narrative, but Carlos used geometric that were more figurative (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica).

This painting, The Woman Grinding Maize, shows what a lot of people feel about work; even though you don’t like it you still have to do it. The woman face expression demonstrates sadness, exhaustion and pain. I can see how she doesn’t have the best job but she still does her job with pride. This painting teaches me that I have to do the best job no matter how much I dislike it and take pride in what I do. Rivera really demonstrates these feelings in the woman grinding the maize, she is looking down with almost seems her to be nearly closed; her back is gloomed hunch backing down. Diego Rivera shaded her face down darker than the rest of her body to emphasize the sadness in her work. So based on all those details I feel as Rivera demonstrated these feeling openly. When I see this painting I see exactly what Diego is showing, the day-to-day life of a working woman.

Pablo Picasso’s way of drawing can be seen as very different and rather similar at the same time compared to Vincent Van Gogh’s method. Drawing allowed van Gogh to capture light and images more quickly than with painting and

After the Mexican Revolution, which took place from 1910 - 1920, Mexican art saw a change in the type of art being created. Although the focus of creating art with an indigenous and Mexican theme continued, the country saw a shift to art presenting socialist ideals. The government saw value in working with local artist and commissioning them to create murals that would influence their political agendas. However, what these murals mostly did was strengthen the Mexican culture and bring pride to the indigenous heritage. Although this time period has come and gone, its influence over Mexican art and culture is still very apparent today and can even be seen in Mexican American communities today.

Diego Rivera was known for a muralist of the Mexican Social Realism. This movement was the brutality of WWI. It attacked capitalist. Rivera was a communist, he believed in the common ownership in social, political, and economic ideology that strived to maintain social order. One example of this

Ancient Mexico is a grandiose mural which represents the main events of Mexico’s history from the Pre-Columbian Period to Modern Time. The inspiration came to Diego Rivera, from the nationalist movement of his country. Therefore, the mural elements are prototypical of the painting style’s era. Physically the mural is located on the stairway of the Mexican National Palace, in Mexico City; which is the place where the Presidents work. This mural was commissioned at the end of the Mexican Revolution by the federal government. Moreover, this masterpiece depicts its era, considering that this was the dominating genre in the 1920’s, among the Mexican painters.

Mexican artists, more than most other artists in the Americas, exemplify the political and social obligations of artists. According to Soltes (2011), several Mexican artists of the early twentieth century were inspired by the revolutions and political unrest occurring in Mexico, which was reflected in their work. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) considered one of Mexico’s Renaissance artists, influenced by European avant-garde style, painted Zapatista Landscape (1915). This work was done as Rivera’s tribute to the Mexican revolutionary “Emiliano Zapata who had played a key role in the 1910 Mexican Revolution that had overthrown the then President Porfirio Diaz” (Soltes, L43, 4:42). Soltes (2011) describes this work: “very clearly we see a rifle; we see it's a sarape, together with a very stylized backdrop of water, mountains and sky, punctuated by a work that seems largely to emulate the synthetic cubist style of Picasso and Braque that we've earlier discussed. One has the allusion indeed, that we are looking at a collage of geometric forms made of diverse materials imposed against that background of vague sea and sky”(L43, 4:13).

Diego Rivera was born in December of 1886 and first began creating art and murals at the age of three after the death of his twin brother. Young Diego's parents caught him drawing on the walls of their home but rather than punish him for it they instead nurtured his growing creativity. They installed canvas and chalkboard on the walls and let Rivera create as he saw fit. Even in his early years Diego knew what he wanted to be. When Diego Rivera was 10, he attended San Carlos school of fine arts where he furthered his love for art. In 1907, Diego Rivera continued his education in Europe. He there also met a few others who later became famous artistic figures. For example, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Piet Mondrian. The world in which Diego

Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and muralist who greatly changed the art world. He didn’t care what other people thought about his art and he painted what he saw, not what others wanted him to see. It was his’s creative manner and approach that set him apart from other artists; it was what made him one of the most renowned artists that existed during his time period. This paper will present the

The Mexican Revolution influenced him to make murals/artwork of other political ideas. Diego Rivera had other topics for his artwork such as history and culture. Diego Rivera was mainly known for being a muralist, these murals that he created represented political ideas like revolutions and the daily lives of Native Mexicans. Diego's style of art was Mexican muralism, cubism, modern, Impressionism, and

A prominent and well-respected artist during the Mexican Revolution, Diego Rivera, illustrates principles from the Manifesto of the Communist Party through his artwork, which furthermore demonstrates an influence on Mexican art. His original artwork Man at the Crossroads was destroyed at the Rockefeller Center in New York City after heavy controversy, but remade it in Mexico. Specifically, through Rivera’s Man, Controller of the Universe from1934, it is evident that the Communist Manifesto’s call for outspokenness and principle of abolition of private property for the bourgeois are depicted.

That’s exactly what Diego Rivera did. Jose Diego Maria Rivera was born Guanajuato, Mexico on December 8th, 1886. He had a twin brother that died when he was about 2 years old. His father worked as a teacher, a health inspector, and an editor for a newspaper (Encyclopedia 1). Diego Rivera is one of the most inspirational muralists to come from Mexico, because he has the most unique murals illustrated in size, location, the skills it took, and public reaction.

In spite of the fact that Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter, impacted much of his authentic roots in Mexico, his commitments to American culture all through the primary portion of the twentieth century were incredible. Rivera needed his specialty to impact the sufficient world to transform it. Amid a period of upheavals in both technological innovation and political issues, Rivera was one of the numerous roused to make work that was socially radical at the time. His perspectives of help for Socialism, his attitude toward Capitalism, and his depictions of the ‘industrial revolution’ around the globe got the consideration and eyes of whole countries. "Rivera's work appeared as though it was driving straightforwardly to the present social/cultural

In the socialism and the Arts section, Meade describes how Mexico’s artists sought to express themselves through revolutionary art, murals, describing the struggles of different classes caused by ruling class. In the second reading, Meade argues how Mexico was till behind in terms or women’s rights such as the right to vote; this section is also about president Cardenas was able to bring changes and reforms to help Mexico modernize. In the last reading, the author describes the murals and the impact they had on Mexico; murals started out as something the artists actually wanted to do, to a tool used for propaganda by the state to fulfill their own interests.