Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint...
...Shot 1?Diego Rivera is now no more than an opportunist and an entertainer of tourists...
...Shot 2?Diego Rivera's art is not revolutionary because it fails to portray the Communist ideal...
...Shot 3?Diego Rivera is no friend of the people because he accepted the late Dwight Whitney Morrow's money to paint his famed murals in the courtyard of the Cortez Palace at Cuernavaca...
Shot 2?Because of the long time it took to finish the Cuernavaca murals and the high cost of materials, he, Diego Rivera, kept only a few hundred pesos a month for himself...