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After four months of radioactive cobalt treatment in a Moscow hospital, Mexico's pudgy Communist Artist Diego Rivera, 69, bounded out with a paean to the "miracle cure" of his skin cancer. The Communists picked up the tab for all his expenses, so Rivera made a grateful bid (untaken) to his hosts: "I would consider it the climax of my career if the Soviet government asked me to paint something for them here!" The U.S.S.R. struck Diego Rivera as little short of paradise. Said he: "I am very happy to have been sick here...
...three Mexican painters who for 25 years led Mexico in its great painting renaissance, Diego Rivera, 68, is now in Moscow to check up on suspected cancer, and unctuously expressing his hope of painting like the trite Soviet real ists. Firebrand David Siqueiros, 56, just back himself from a Moscow pilgrimage with a com mission to do the "world's largest mural" (4,500 sq. ft.) for the new Warsaw sports stadium, de lights in ridiculing contemporary Mexican art ists, including fellow Party Member Rivera. With the passage of time it seems that the least political and most impassioned...
...Manufacturer Dr. Alvaro Carillo Gil, who for more than 20 years befriended all three painters, today owns 500 modern Mexican works worth $2,000,-000. Says Collector Carillo: "In Mexico we seem to have reached our last artistic peak in the late '403." For him both Siqueiros and Rivera in recent years have become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge the hold of the Big Three, Dr. Carillo still keeps Orozco...
...courage to draw what he saw: the Marxist "liberator" in turn enslaving the revolutionaries, the Franciscan friar as the symbol of brotherly compassion. These views, plus his hatred of war and distrust of political panaceas, often brought his art into open conflict with the rhetoric of Rivera and the angry manifesto images of Siqueiros. But they expressed the age-old cry of the Mexican people, and as such stand a chance of echoing in men's minds as long as poverty and injustice exist...
...Carnation' or the k out of 'Milk.' ") On the proceeds of the sale of five local-color paintings he went off to Mexico, fell in love with the work of Orozco, Rivera and Tamayo ("There was no talk of what could sell...