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The artist I am doing this project on is Diego Rivera. Well I'm looking to hopefully add some points about how he started painting. More detailed facts about his education. Also some info referring his child hood and today's era.

My three biographical articles are http://www.aurorajournal.org/ http://www.upress.umn.edu/journals/culturalcritique/cultcrit.html http://www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic/

Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. As a child, Rivera had an interest in drawing. At the age of 10, Rivera went to study art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. In 1907, Rivera traveled to Europe to further his art studies. His passion for art began at a early age. In 1921, through a government program, he started a series of murals in public bulidings. Many of these murals were contrevorsial to the public. Just like the mural he did in New York City CRA building. This mural was called "man at the crossroads". Diego Rivera was mostly know for making art that reflected the lives of the working class and the natives peoples of Mexico due to his inspiration by the Mexican revolution and the Russian revolution. The late 1930s, Rivera went through a slow period in terms of work. He had no major mural commissions around this time so he devoted himself to painting other works.Diego Rivera lost his wife, Frida Kahlo, in 1954. hat following year, He married Emma Hurtado, his art dealer. By this time, Rivera's health was in decline. He had traveled abroad for cancer treatment, but doctors were unable to cure him. Diego Rivera died of heart failure on November 24, 1957, in Mexico City, Mexico.