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...Coyoacan Mexico D.F., Mexico...
...life, which was flushed with publicity, Diego Rivera was often photographed. He filled the frame--a 300-lb. Silenus in suspenders and open- neck shirt, the liquid eyes bulging at the rival lens. One image shows him feigning sleep. He lies mountainously in the garden of his house in Coyoacan, his head pillowed on the stony side of an eroded pre-Columbian head. He is pretending to be a big baby dozing by his mother, the Mexican past, touching the root of contentment. No other photo so pungently expresses Rivera's idea of his own history, as an artist born...
...vitality. Nobody could say Rivera kept a steady political line, but at least he was no ideologue; his socialism was instinctive and antitotalitarian, like Picasso's, but much deeper. Rivera gave Leon Trotsky asylum from Stalinist assassins (including the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros) in his own house at Coyoacan, but two years later Trotsky moved out, complaining that he no longer felt "moral solidarity" with Rivera's "anarchistic" views. In 1940 Rivera denounced Stalin as "the undertaker of the Revolution," the betrayer of Spain; by 1952 he was painting a saintly Uncle Joe with a peace dove on one hand...
...arrival in Mexico City Langer travelled by taxi to the suburb of Coyoacan. After riding down a respectable road the taxi turned into a deserted, unpaved street, with many rust but no houses. At the end of the street was a villa, protected by walls and heavilyarmed guards. The guards had been notified of Langer's arrival and he was admitted, without too much difficulty, to the simply-furnished villa...
Trotsky was enchanted by the Mexican landscape. He was fascinated by cacti and took long hikes to search for rare specimens. The hard-bitten revolutionary also kept rabbits and chickens at his home in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, and spent hours feeding them according to the latest scientific methods...