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Died. Edward Weston, 71, painstaking camera craftsman, one of the world's topflight creative photographers; of Parkinson's disease; in Carmel Highlands, Calif. At 37, Weston abandoned his Los Angeles portrait studio, moved to Mexico where he worked with Painters Diego Rivera and José Orozco, in 1926 returned to California, began a series of precise, sharply composed nature studies that made him famous, won (in 1937) the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given to a photographer. Weston used little equipment, almost never retouched or cropped his clear, spare negatives, cautiously refused until 1947 to use color film...
...Telling. Hundreds of Rivera's greatest frescoes combine the sunshine of Renaissance humanism with Indian earthiness and cruel drama. Rivera was a great enough artist to bridge the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and the 15th and 20th centuries. Most of his easel pictures -society portraits, nightclub nudes and tourist bouquets-are likely to pass away like grass now that Rivera is gone. The Indian museum-temple that he built to house his pre-Columbian collection will doubtless remain one of architecture's more intriguing curiosities. His murals are his lasting monument. Provocative at worst, or blatantly propagandistic...
Giotto's murals are still young, which means that they will probably live until they crumble. Whether or not Rivera's murals, too, will breathe life for generation after generation is unanswerable. An artist of Rivera's stature might be compared to a rocket that dies boosting a satellite in the form of art. Symbolically enough, his last completed picture was of a baby holding a Russian satellite. He was buried with much honor, but naturally no church rites, in Mexico's Rotunda of Illustrious Men. While Mexican Communists paraded the hammer and sickle. Fellow Painter...
...years he sheltered his friende Trotsky from Stalin's international assassins. After Trotsky was killed, Rivera explained away his own attacks on Stalin as "just a trick to mislead the stockholders of Bethlehem Steel." He made a trip to Moscow two years ago for a cure for cancer, came back to report that "throughout Russia there are no secrets, no censorship restrictions. Every single person in Russia has television...
Died. Diego Maria Concepcićn Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez, 70, Mexican Communist artist known the world over as Diego Rivera; of thrombosis and phlebitis; in Mexico City...