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Diego Rivera Mexican, 1886–1957 Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albert M. Bender Collection, giſt of Albert M. Bender; © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York For more information about this work, watch The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds at sfmoma.org/countrydog. This guide is part of SFMOMA’s Art Express outreach program, which is generously supported by Deborah and Kenneth Novack. Create Using the boxes and lines below, draw and write what you think might have happened in the moment before and after the scene in The Flower Carrier—and be sure to color in your scenes.
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Diego RiveraMexican, 1886–1957
Dieg
o Rivera
, The Flow
er Ca
rrier, 1935; Sa
n Francisco M
useum of M
odern A
rt, Alb
ert M. B
ender C
ollection, gift
of Alb
ert M. B
ender;
© B
anco d
e México D
iego R
ivera &
Frida
Ka
hlo Museum
s Trust, Mexico, D
.F. / Artists R
ights S
ociety (AR
S), N
ew York
For more inform
ation a
bout this w
ork, wa
tch The Country D
og G
entlemen Tra
vel to Extra
ordina
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s at sfm
oma.org/countrydog.
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by Deb
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nd K
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Crea
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lines below
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efore and
after the scene in The Flow
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nd b
e sure to color in your scenes.
Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935
Diego Rivera began his artistic training at the age of six in Mexico City. At twenty-one, he left for Europe. He lived in Spain, France, and Italy, studying both classical painting styles and the contemporary painting style of his day. Rivera returned to Mexico in 1921, after the Mexican Revolution, to take part in a new national mural program. He created murals, draw-ings, and paintings about Mexican history, culture, and traditions, and about the daily life of common people.
This artwork is a good example of the everyday moments and people Rivera was interested in portraying. In this artwork, two figures work together to lift a gigantic basket full of flowers. We don’t see much of the setting for these figures, and we must imagine where they are and where they might be going.
The subject of Mexico’s many flower markets and vendors is one Rivera returned to many times in his career. He made over 24 pictures of flower vendors in his lifetime.
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Use all of your senses to describe the scene that is shown in this artwork. What sounds and smells do you imagine? How would you describe the colors and textures that you see? How would you describe the mood of this picture—happy, sad, calm, excited? What do you see that makes you say that?
Does anything you see happening here remind you of another story you know? If yes, what is the story, and what in the artwork reminds you of it?
If these two figures began to speak, what do you think they would say? What do you see that makes you say that?
