Nació en la ciudad de Guanajuato y en 1892 se trasladó a México con su familia.
Estudió en la academia de San Carlos y en el taller del grabador José Guadalupe Posada, cuya influencia fue decisiva.
Más adelante recibió en París la influencia del post-impresionismo y del cubismo, en cuyo lenguaje se expresó con soltura. Diego Rivera en formas clasicista, simplificadas y con vivo colorido, rescató el pasado precolombino, los momentos más significativos de nuestra historia, la tierra, el campesino y el obrero, las costumbres, y el carácter popular.
La aportación de la obra de Diego Rivera al arte mexicano moderno fue decisiva en murales y de caballete; fue un pintor revolucionario que buscaba llevar el arte al gran público, a la calle y a los edificios, manejando un lenguaje preciso y directo con un estilo realista, pleno de contenido social.
The political situation in Mexico during the 1920s was favourable to the development of a national art. In the public eye, the primary role in the development of this new art was played by Diego Rivera (1886-1957), one of the great hero-figures in the history of twentieth-century Latin American culture. Rivera, born in the mining town of Guanajuato, was the son of a school-teacher. At the time of his birth, Mexico was ruled by Porfirio Diaz, an efficient dictator acting in the interests of the Mexican upper class. His policies included the ‘scientific’ use of land, brought together to form large-scale haciendas, and the encouragement of foreign investment.
Rivera’s art education was thorough, and thoroughly conventional. His family had moved to Mexico City in 1892, and he studied at the official Academia de San Carlos (established in 1781) for seven years. In 1906 he was awarded a government travelling scholarship, and went first to Spain, then to Paris, arriving there in 1908. He gradually absorbed the Parisian avant-garde styles of the day, moving from Neo-Impressionism to Cubism. During this time he paid one visit to Mexico, in 1910, just before the outbreak of the savage revolution which lasted for the next decade and devastated the country.
Pinacoteca Diego Rivera
Tel: 8 18 18 19
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