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Life and Death
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Birth
On December 8, 1886, Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato Mexico along with his twin brother who died two years later, his actual birth name was Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez -
Creation
In 1922 Rivera started his first government-commissioned mural, Creation was created over the course of a year and covers over a thousand square feet. The figures in the mural are over twelve feet high. it was in the technique of Fresco. -
Completion of The Creation
Over the course of a year, Rivera finishes his mural, -
The Liberated Earth with Natural Forces Controlled by Man
Fresco, 22' 8 7/16" x 19' 17 7/16"
The project, completed in 1927, includes fresco cycles in the school's administrative building and new auditorium, located in what had been the hacienda's chapel. -
Rivera in Soviet Unions Festivities
On November 24, just weeks after the anniversary festivities, Anatolii Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, offers the artist a contract to create murals for Moscow's Red Army building -
In the Arsenal
Almost all of Rivera’s art told a story, many of which depicted Mexican society, the Mexican Revolution, or reflected his own personal social and political beliefs, and In the Arsenal is no different -
Market Scene, Fresco
The exhibition Mexican Arts opens at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in October -
Epic of the Mexican People
n the summer Rivera starts work on his murals in the stairwell of Mexico City’s Palacio Nacional, a cycle he will not finish until 1935. Together titled Epic of the Mexican People, the murals combine historical references, mythology, and invention, offering an epic journey through Mexican history. -
Conquest and Revolution
Rivera meets with Dwight Morrow, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, in July. In September, the artist formally accepts a commission from him to create murals at the Palacio de Cortés in Cuernavaca. In December, Rivera begins sketching and preparing the walls for his History of the State of Morelos: Conquest and Revolution. -
Man Controller of the Universe
The Mexican government grants Rivera permission to reproduce a revised version of the RCA mural at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. He completes the project in the winter of 1934. -
The hands of Dr. Moore
These are the hands of Dr. Clarence Moore of Los Angeles, California. They trim the tree of life so that it is renewed and does not die. Diego Rivera painted them in 1940.” -
Pan American Unity
My mural will picture the fusion between the great past of the Latin American lands, as it is deeply rooted in the soil, and the high mechanical developments of the United States." - Diego Rivera -
Rivera's Death
Diego Rivera dies in Mexico City, not too far back his wife Frida Khalo had died and he became very ill from this, and later died of Heart Failure
