Thursday, November 11, 2010

Diego Rivera, a Famous Mexican Artist

http://www.diego-rivera.org/biography.html

Diego Rivera was a very famous Mexican artist. By the age of two, before he could even read, his father set up a studio for him to do his art. He and his family moved to Mexico City where he began taking art classes at a college there at age 10, where he attended for six years. He later then received a scholarship to study art in Europe where he learned  a lot of his techniques. After 14 years abroad he returned home to Mexico and participated in what was called the Mexican Renaissance. Diego Rivera has many beautiful and famous pieces of artwork. El es muy famosa mundial por sus pinturas.

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  1. His picture "The Flower Seller" hangs in a restaurant (Jaliscos) in Hereford! I'll have to look at it more closely the next time we are there, I didn't know it was done by a famous atrist.

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