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...need of names to brighten its roster, Mexico's short-handed (membership: barely 5,000) Communist Party offered a bittersweet welcome to a long-lost comrade, Painter Diego Rivera, 67. In 1929, Comrade Rivera was excommunicated because of his growing list of deviations. He had fallen into the habit of firing off peppery pronunciamentos without first clearing them with the proper Red monitors. Confessed loose-lipped Rivera: "I got kicked out for shooting off my mouth." He later even gave haven in his home for two years to Leon Trotsky. Back in the fold again last week, Rivera...
...SCHEINERT Rivera, Calif...
...Mexico's greatest modern painters, old (70) Francisco Goitia, sat beside deathbeds to catch the last gasp of unwilling models. Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan. And David Siqueiros was perhaps at his best when quartering and Duco-painting a heroic Cuauhtemoc in his death throes. Last week the U.S. got a good look at the work of a new Mexican artist, Jose Luis Cuevas, who sometimes plays truant from the embalmer's school of Mexican...
Artist Cuevas professes to be untutored and uninfluenced-except for his admiration of Jose Clemente Orozco and Rufino Tamayo. He dismisses the other Mexican masters, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, with a shrug: "They died several years ago, and what is left are the politics and the public relations...
...Irish mining engineer and a Mexican-Irish mother, O'Gorman was struck as a youth by the extraordinary artistic renaissance which produced the great murals of Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. He came out of architecture school in 1927 temporarily endowed, like his contemporaries, with an edifice complex, functional phase. Hired by the Mexican government in 1932 to build schools in the capital, the young designer created box after concrete box, and in three years he studded the city with enough small schools to provide classrooms for 40,000 students. But finally O'Gorman got fed up with...