Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three weeks ago Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin abolished Saturday and Sunday, instituted a new calendar, placed Russian industries on continuous working basis (TIME, Oct. 7). Kindred ideas of high pressure efficiency came last week to Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. He issued a manifesto...
Dissatisfied, the returning painters formed a guild called the "Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors" and offered to decorate buildings in a true Mexican style. With Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) as mas ter they received a contract to paint murals for the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. For their motive they chose the Creation of the World, which was executed in monumental scale with figures twice lifesize. Unlike polite muralists of other countries their colors were not pastel tints but sombre browns, flashing reds and greens...
...Diego Rivera was the most journalisti cally picturesque of the syndicate. He was assailed by the press, lampooned on the stage. Souvenir hunters put snapshots of him in their kodak albums with street beggars. Indians and other scenic curiosities. Undaunted, he works on. Today he is painting what will be the world's largest mural, in the Government Palace in Mex ico City, which will picture the history of Mexico from the Spanish conquest. Painter Rivera is often visited by English speaking tourists and keeps a U. S. assistant to interpret...
Married. Diego Rivera, of Mexico City, mural painter, 1929 winner of the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architecture (TIME, May 6); and one Frieda Kohlo; in Coyoacan, Mexico...
Cross-featured, huge, is Mexico's genial Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6). Expression of proletariat life is his art; conversation his hobby. Last week through his art and his hobby Artist Rivera became the centre of a political controversy...