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Painter Diego Rivera, who owns one of the world's best collec tions of Mexican archeological treasures, considers these contemporary masks as fine as those produced 1,000 years ago, and predicts that they will be museum pieces 1,000 years hence. They are, says Rivera, "a genuine expression of the plastic genius of the people of Mexico, combining the traditions of our ancient cultures with the contributions brought by the Spanish invasion. Along with the expressive potency of their forms and colors," Rivera adds darkly, "the masks have the black humor that enables our people to laugh...
Also included on the list is Guillermo Rivera, associate professor of Spanish, who has been at the University since...
When the artist saw the reproduction of a sketch for Diego Rivera's new mural. The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace (TIME, March 17), he was angered by the symbolism that glorified Russia and derided the U.S. Translating his wrath into action, he picked up brush and palette, set to work on the painting shown here...
...depicts life in Communist countries, shows people dying in prison, idle factories, cannon ready to fire, churches demolished, and people in slave camps. The sharpest touch: a mask of Rivera peering from behind a dollar-sign totem pole...
Kandinsky's abstractions never fell into showoff coldness. There was passion enough in his pictures to overwhelm even so anti-abstract a social-realist painter as Mexico's Diego Rivera. "I know of nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky," Rivera once wrote, "not anything more true and nothing more beautiful. A painting of Kandinsky gives no image of earthly life-it is life itself...