Rivera, a Mexican painter who also worked in the USA. Rivera and artist wife Frida Kahlo had strong socialist values, owing to their identification with Mexico's rural poor and oppressed. these values are visually represented in their work, especially in Rivera's murals. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/rivera/intro.php . Rivera's paintings also indicate his interests in modernist art movements such as Post-impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism.
Frida Kahlo, Guillermo Kahlo, 1926, From the collection of: Museo Frida Kahlo
Self-portrait, Guillermo Kahlo, 0, From the collection of: Museo Frida Kahlo
Frida and the Cesarean (unfinished), Frida Kahlo, 1931, From the collection of: Museo Frida Kahlo
The Alarm Clock, Diego Rivera, 1914, From the collection of: Museo Frida Kahlo
The Temptations of Saint Anthony, Diego Rivera, 1947, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Arte
The Temptation of St. Anthony, David Teniers, the Younger, Undated, From the collection of: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Compare this to Rivera's modernist representation of the same subject matter.
Explain which modernist painting conventions Rivera has used in his re-invention of the subject matter.
The Grinder, Diego Rivera, 1924, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Arte
Marxism Will Give Health to the Ill, Frida Kahlo, 1954, From the collection of: Museo Frida Kahlo
Untitled (study for The modern procession-Frida Kahlo), Francis Alÿs, 2001, From the collection of: Art Gallery of New South Wales
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