Diego Rivera

Mexican muralist Diego Rivera is most fascinating to me as a character. He was politically outspoken, quite immoral with the ladies, and famous. He had crews of people working under him to complete his mural designs. He was commissioned in Mexico and America.

I was able to visit one apartment he lived in as a child. It has been turned into his museum. I felt quite familiar with his work before the visit to the museum where I learned that he had been classically trained. He took his learning and combined it with traditional indigenous representational methods to create his unique style. This was one of the first times I truly understood the value of art education in the pursuit of personal artistic style.