artist 8: diego rivera
Day of the Dead , 1944 Portrait of Two Women , 1914 Flower Seller , 1941 Modesta , 1937 The Painter's Studio , 1954 Diego Rivera was born in Mexico in 1886. I love the vibrant colors, movement, and the rich Mexican heritage present in his work which undoubtedly make him the legend he is today. I came across a quote from him where he talks about returning home to Mexico after a long period of time, which I thought was beautiful: "My homecoming produced an aesthetic exhilaration which it is impossible to describe. It was as if I were being born anew, born in a new world... In everything I saw a potential masterpiece - the crowds, the markets, the festivals, the marching battalions, the workingmen in the shop and in the fields - in every glowing face, in every luminous child... My style was born as children are born, in a moment, except that this birth had come after a torturous pregnancy of thirty-five years." I want to have that kind of...