Diego RiveraBy: Brianna Carey, Kaylee Michael, Devan Solomon

Who Our presentation is about a Mexican

artist named Diego Rivera.

What Diego Rivera was an artist. He was considered one of the greatest

Mexican painters. Diego reintroduced fresco painting into

modern art and architecture.

Where Diego was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. Studied painting at an early age and in

1907 moved to Europe. He spent most of the next 14 years in

Paris.

When In 1930, Diego made his first series of

trips that would alter the course of American painting.

In 1932, during the Great Depression, Diego arrived in Detroit, where at the demand of Henry Ford, he began a praise on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Diego died in the year of 1957

Why Diego noticed that people were buying

his paintings and they actually liked them.

Even though Diego was under a contract to paint for a gallery in Paris, his career started becoming famous when he moved back to Mexico.

Sites http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmaste

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http://www.sfai.edu/diego-rivera-mural http://www.pbase.com/shmiller/image/

2491443 http://www.diegorivera.org/diego-rivera-

paintings.jsp