Word: rivera
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...Mexico's Big Three in painting-Rivera and Siqueiros-forgot their public quarrels recently to pay homage to the third...
...Mexico's Big Three in painting had come to pay homage to the third. For one evening last week their flaming public quarrels over art and politics were forgotten. Triple-chinned Diego Rivera's habitual garrulity was reduced to a murmured "magnifico, magnifico" as he passed from picture to picture. Fiery David Alfaro Siqueiros, a spotlight lover himself, knew well whose turn it was this night. He kept drawing Jose Clemente Orozco back into the limelight each time the shy, shabby little one-armed man tried to shuffle off to a corner...
...Critic Antonio Castro Leal seemed to corroborate the angry priest when he told Orozco: "Your art is not easy, soothing, or conservative, but deep and violent." From the first, Orozco had dipped his brushes in violence and brutality. His paintings. like those of his leftist colleagues Rivera and Siqueiros, became the flags of Mexico's political revolutionaries. But there was nothing impersonal or party-line about Orozco's bitterness...
Mexico's aging "Big Three"-Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera-have plastered miles of Mexican walls with bayonets, clenched fists, streaming banners and broken chains. That kind of thing is no longer up-to-date. Last week Rufino Tamayo, 47, the most important of Mexico's "younger" painters, opened a one-man show in Manhattan. Revolutionary violence is not his game; he paints the classless society of his own imagination...
...York judge, resurrecting a 37-year-old law, visited the sins of a son upon his mother. After her divorce in 1943, Genevieve Rivera had dumped her two children on her stepmother. She lived from one drink to another, in one apartment or another, with one man or another. Son Robert ran wild, took to playing hooky, slept in cellars and warehouses. Last month he was arrested for wounding three people with a .22 rifle he had stolen from a pawnbroker. Haled into court last week, 33-year-old Genevieve Rivera was sentenced to one year in prison for contributing...