Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EDWARD H. WHELAN San Diego, Calif...
...huge circular earrings affected by Balinese ladies, the costumes of dancing girls, their fans and lavish headgear. His line drawings, particularly one of two dancers called Legong, were graceful and more colorful than his paintings, which had the air of East Indian fashion plates. With pardonable bias, Muralist Diego Rivera, for whom Covarrubias once lugged water jugs in Mexico City, said: "Covarrubias has now reached the age at which a man's face occasionally becomes overcast and in which his work grows in profundity...
...Franciscans felt superior. They had not only seen his frescoes, they owned two important examples, in the California School of Fine Arts, in the San Francisco Stock Exchange. New Yorkers were eagerly awaiting the first Eastern showing of frescoes by Diego Rivera, the only man other than Henri Matisse ever to be given a one man show by the Museum of Modern...
...Diego Rivera is only an excerpt of his name. His Mexican parents had him baptized Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta. Nobody ever called him anything but Diego Rivera, though many critics call him the greatest mural painter in the western hemisphere. If he is not the greatest, he is certainly the largest. His bulkiest rival. Joseph Urban, tips the scales at 230 Ib. Mural Painter Rivera displaced 250 Ib. the last time he was weighed; friends claim that he has expanded greatly since then...
...Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato just 45 years ago. At the age of eight, Diego Rivera attracted considerable attention by cutting out an army of 5,000 paper soldiers. Misinterpreting this, his parents sent him to a military academy. In 1910 he was in Paris assisting, with Picasso and Braque, at the accouchement of cubism. Back in Mexico City he was the leading figure in a group of quasi-Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos...