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    Diego Rivera


    “Quería que mis pinturas reflejaran la vida social de México tal como yo la veía, y mediante mi visión de la verdad mostrar a las masas un esquema del futuro” -Diego Rivera.

    Diego María Rivera y Barrientos nació en la ciudad de Guanajuato, Gto., el 8 de diciembre de 1886. Hijo de maestros de escuela, las primeras letras las aprendió en su hogar, y continuó la instrucción primaria en la escuela de la calle de Cantarranas de su ciudad natal. A los seis años de edad se estableció con su familia en la Ciudad de México (1892), en donde continuó su educación escolar hasta 1897, año en que comenzó a asistir a las clases de dibujo nocturno en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de San Carlos como discípulo de don Andrés Ríos.

     

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    Diego Rivera


    "I wanted my paintings to reflect the social life of Mexico as I saw it, and through my vision of the truth to show the masses the outline of the future."-Diego Rivera Diego María Rivera y Barrientos was born in the city of Guanajuato, Gto. on December 8, 1886. The son of schoolteachers, he learned his first letters at home, and continued his primary education at the school on Cantarranas Street in his hometown. At the age of six he settled with his family in Mexico City (1892), where he continued his schooling until 1897, when he began attending night drawing classes at the San Carlos National School of Fine Arts as a disciple of Andrés Ríos.

    Together with José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, he formed the great Mexican muralist triad of the 20th century. Diego Rivera began his studies at the San Carlos Academy with Santiago Rebull and José María Velasco. In 1907, he moved to Europe where he expanded and perfected his pictorial techniques and knowledge.

    First in Madrid with Eduardo Chicharro and later in France and Italy. During his stay in Europe, which lasted until 1921, he assimilated the main trends of innovative artistic movements such as impressionism, post-impressionism and cubism. Back in Mexico and identified with the communist movement, Diego Rivera renounced the artistic education he had received in Europe, appropriated the indigenous and black traditions of Mexico - without forgetting the European technique - and raised mural painting as the banner of his indigenism and his Marxist apostolate.

     

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