As the roaring ’20s approached, Rivera, destined to become both a great muralist and heartbreaker of Picassian proportions, abruptly switched directions, abandoning cubism, and, not long after ...

In 1907, with support from the governor of Veracruz, Don Teodoro Dehesa, Rivera set off for Europe, where he encountered Italian Renaissance frescoes and modernist movements including cubism.

Rivera achieves a decorative splendor that more hard-hitting early cubism rarely did. His colors, and even forms, sometimes seem there just for the sake of how they look.

A New Exhibit Maps Cubism’s End to an Explosion of Artistic Experimentation Highlights of the Detroit Institute of Arts show include drawings and prints by Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, Henri ...

Most people know Diego Rivera for his calming depictions of earthy, wide-bodied women selling bundles of lilies, or possibly for his intricate, Hieronymus Bosch-like murals of Mexican history ...

The engrossing ‘Diego Rivera’s America’ celebrates the Mexican maestro’s influence, but also shows his slide into political peril — and kitsch.

Diego Rivera wasn’t just a brilliant artist, he was also a compelling man whose life held violence and controversy. Google celebrates the muralist with a Google Doodle on Thursday that mirrors ...

Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera looked to ancient art, European and Mexican, for their modern work.

Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were influential in art history because of their merging of art and politics. Their work is on exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC.

DIEGO RIVERA, His LIFE AND TIMES—Bertram D. Wolfe—Knopf ($6). Six years ago in a crowded little top floor room on Manhattan’s 14th Street, Painter John Sloan and Walter Pach joined in ...

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts will open its Dos Mujeres exhibition on Feb. 7, 2025 — giving a glimpse into the early years of influential painter Diego Rivera.

A new exhibit on Mexican artist Diego Rivera looks at his portraits from the several years in Paris when he focused on Cubism.