Midterm - Diego Rivera_Lawrence C.pdf

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Birth 1886

Guanajuato, Mexico

1896 attends

San Carlos Academy of Art 1917 discord with Picasso,

abandons Cubism

1912 Cubism

1908 sponsored by Veracruz

governor to travel to Europe;

studies Old Masters of Spain1909 travels to France, Belgium,

London, and back to France;

starts relationship with

Angelina Belo

Mexican Revolution 19101920 1921 Mexican government

sponsors mural program

First World War 19141918 Second World War 19391945

1917 October Revolution (Russia)

marks beginning of communism

1917 Mexican constitution

1922 USSR created

1920 travels to Italy;

studies Renaissance fresco

1922 founds Union of

Revolutionary Painters,

Sculptors, and Graphic Artists;joins Mexican Communist

Party; marries model

Guadalupe (Lupe) Marin

1927 attends October Revolution

anniversary in Moscow

1928 meets art

student Frida Kahlo;

separates from Lupe Marin

1929 marries Frida;

quits communist

party

1930 travels

to U.S.

1940 visits U.S. in

solidarity against

fascism

1941 starts

constructing

Anahuacalli to

house art collection

1954 Kahlo dies. Rivera presentsKahlos Blue House and his

Anahuacalli to the Mexican

government as museums

1934 returns to Mexico1921 cuts contact with

European friends and family;

returns to Mexico; studies

indegenous Mexican art

1923 Creation1st major fresco

1923 The EmbraceSEP fresco, Primitivism

1915Zapatista Landscapeoil on canvas, cubism

1914 Sailor at Breakfastoil on canvas, cubism

1918 Still Life with Riceroil on canvas, SR 1923 The Sugar Mill

SEP fresco

1926 Triumph of the Revolution

Chapingo fresco

1928 The Arsenal

SEP fresco

19291935 The History of MexicoNational Palace fresco

1940 Pan-American Unityfresco

1948 Dream of a Sunday

Afternoon in Alameda

Parkfresco

1950 The Huastec Civilisationfresco

1951 Water, Origin of Lifeunderwater fresco

1930Allegory

of California

fresco

1930Zapatas Horse

1 of 8 frescos painted for MoMA

1933 Detroit Industry

27 frescos for

Ford Motor

Company

1933/1934 Man, Controller of the Universefresco originally for Rockefeller Center,

destroyed for portraying Trotsky & Lenin; repainted in Mexico

1925 Flower Festival

oil on canvas, art deco

1912 View of Toledooil on canvas, cubism

1910 Head ofBreton Womanoil on canvas, SR

1904 La Eraoil on canvas, social realism (SR)

19231928, 117 frescos for Secretaria de Educacion Publica (SEP)

Death 1957

San Angel, Mexico

1907 Self Portrait with Broad Brimmed Hat

oil on canvas, SR

19251928 frescos for National School of Architecture (Chapingo)

19291935 The History of Mexico for the National Palace

1949 Self Portraitfresco

1953A History of Medicinefresco1956 May Day Procession in Moscow

oil on canvas, SR

1956 Evening Twilight at

Acapulcooil on canvas

1956 Diagnosed with cancer.

Travels to USSR for treatment.

{

*Note: fresco paintings are muralism unless

otherwise stated

HISTORY

BIOGRA

PHY

PAINTINGS


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Neutral

Harmony

RGB CMYK Hex

59, 35, 20 50, 70, 80, 70 3B2314

154, 132, 120 0, 19, 25, 60 9A8478

246, 206, 181 0, 19, 25, 2 F6CEB5

0, 0, 0 0, 0, 0, 100 000000

Design Process

I first ordering Diego Riveras life events, paintings, painting descriptions,

and history chronologically. Noting his significant role in reviving muralism, I

decided to use the concept of a fresco for the overall design. His murals

involve a dense layering and stacked arrangements, particularly of people. I

decided to do a dense packing of strips revealing slices of his creations laid

over a plaster background. Because of the public nature of so many of his

works, I also experimented with using a tiled flooring upon which the variousinformation labels would rest. I ultimately retained the tiles but with high

transparency so the lines do not compete with the text.

Diego Rivera made use of primary colors red, yellow, and blues in many of

his paintings but also many neutral tones. After considering a triad

harmony, I settled on a neutral harmony given how much of my contribution

is text and my decision to use a plaster texture required higher contrast. I

chose a san serif typeface because I regarded this as an informationalpiece. Given the amount of information presented, I wanted to avoid the

potential noise from serifs. I sampled a few san serif fonts and settled on

Myriad Pro.


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Bibliography

Olgas Gallery

http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rivera/riverabio.html

accessed October 21, 2013

MoMAhttp://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/116

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WikiPaintings http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/diego-

rivera accessed October 21, 2013

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Diego-Rivera-Self-Portrait-2 accessed October 26,

2013

Diego Rivera Experts

http://www.riveraexperts.com/index.html accessed

October 26, 2013
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