Visual activism is a language of protest, encrypted in images. In Latin America, it has become an integral part of the ...

Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great ...

Born into a Mexican-American family, his Chicano heritage has always been important to him and shaped his creative endeavors. His parents named him after the famed muralist, Diego Rivera ... arrive to ...

the restored mural bears the hallmarks of Mexican muralism, as pioneered not only by Siqueiros (1896-1974), but, above all, by Diego Rivera (1886 –1957) and José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949 ...

Though Mexico is best known for the Mexican Muralist Movement of the 1920s, led by Diego Rivera, José Clemente ... By the period of the Mexican Revolution, murals had become a powerful vehicle ...

Here we mention 6 famous artworks by Diego Rivera. ‘Dream of a Sunday Afternoon ... Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship, and the Mexican Revolution. The mural is set in Alameda Park, Mexico’s oldest ...

The central role of printmaking in five centuries of Mexican art on view at the Met ... bought more than 2,000 works by artists like Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Julio ...

There, she met another famous Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, whom she later married ... things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution.” 19. “There have been two ...

nor that Zapata himself was not a peasant, and in fact had not done badly under the ancien régime; nor that the painter, Diego Rivera, had sat out the revolution in the ateliers of Europe, having ...

In 1947, Diego Rivera further immortalized La Catrina ... The mural portrays Mexican history from the Spanish conquest to the Mexican Revolution. La Catrina stands at the literal center of this ...