Diego Rivera

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The paper discusses how Diego Rivera lived a highly political and artistic life in his murals. The paper explains that his greatest achievements in art are reflected through the Communism he so dearly believed in. The paper portrays how by painting scenes of historical value for the common working people, Rivera was a man who believed that greed and excess were an international problem. The paper stresses how in this manner, Diego Rivera lived a life of politics through artistic integrity and the genius of the mural medium.

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"This study will examine the life and artistic achievements of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. By understanding the foundations of Rivera's political life, one can realize the power of his murals to relate a strong cultural relativism of communistic philosophy in his mural works. By creating murals for the working people of Mexico, Rivera exemplified the artistic vision of a Mexican Communist Nationalism that has endured into the 21st century. This was the life Diego Rivera both politically and artistically defined through the medium he created for walls and large-scale mural painting. His early life reflected the middle class atmosphere of his rural home: "Diego Rivera was born December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato in Mexico, to Diego and Maria Barrientos Rivera.""

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