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Diego Rivera
Mexican Artist
1886- 1957
Mrs. Naft, Reading Specialist, [email protected]
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was
born in Mexico on
December 8, 1886.
As a child he was a
good student and a
talented artist.
By the time he was
twelve years old, he
was a full time art
student. At twenty
Diego Rivera was well
known as a painter.
After finishing school, the
Mexican government sent Diego
to Spain to study art. He
returned to Mexico for one
year at the start of the
Mexican Revolution when the
poor workers and farmers were
demanding the government
return the land to the poor.
The next year he returned
to Europe for many years,
but moved back to Mexico
after the Revolution. Diego
taught that art should be on
big walls where everyone can
see it. These types of
paintings are called murals.
Diego represented the
ideas of the Mexican
Revolution by painting murals
of indigenous (native) people
and their history. What
point of view did he have
about them in the next
pictures?
Before 1520
Mexican
flower
farmers
and
vendors
in the
1900’s.
Diego wanted his
murals to give workers
and Mexicans pride in
their jobs, culture,
history, and optimism
about their future.
Workers
building
machines
for
Mexico’s
growing
industry
in the
1900’s.
Diego Rivera
painted until the end
of his life in 1957.
Mural of Mexican History in
the Palace of Cortes
The mural is in a large hall and
covers three of its walls. The
pictures blend into one another to
show the events in chronological
order (beginning, middle, and end).
It begins on one side with the
arrival of the Spanish in 1521 and
ends on the other side with the
Mexican Revolution in 1910.
The Palace of Cortes today
in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
We will interpret pictures
from the mural in the
Palace of Cortes in order
to identify Diego Rivera’s
point of view about these
events.
The Spanish conquest of the natives of the
land that later became Mexico.
This is a drawing of the center of Tenochtitlan before
the arrival of the Spanish. It was made by a Spanish
artist and is based on descriptions of the Spanish
conquerors and the surviving ruins of the Aztec
pyramids.
Cortes
led
the war
against
the
natives.
An Aztec warrior knight
dressed for battle in jaguar
skins, a shield, and a war club
made of black obsidian (a
volcanic stone that is like
glass).
A Spanish knight and
horse dressed in full
metal armor.
The
conquest
of the
indigenous
natives by
the
Spanish in
1521.
The Spanish
priests and
soldiers lead
the native
Mexicans in their
first Christian
religious service.
The
indigenous
native
Mexicans
build the
Palace of
Cortes under
the
supervision of
the Spanish
rulers.
The
indigenous
Mexicans
work in the
sugar cane
industry
under the
supervision of
the land
owners.
The priests
oversee
the building
of the
cathedral
by the
indigenous
workers.
Emiliano
Zapata
leads the
Mexican
people in a
revolution
against the
Mexican
government.
Not all of Diego
Rivera’s murals tell
events in chronological
order. The next one is in
the Presidential Palace in
Mexico City and shows
the history in one big
picture.
5- Laws
6- Mexican
Revolution
4- War for freedom
of reform
against Spain
1- the founding of
the Aztec capital
3- Colonial period when Spain ruled the country
2-
Spanish conquest
Another way to show events.