Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would also be hard to match the unpredictable native drive of his politics. Rivera is a Marxist and he plays the part with rumpus-raising, vociferous passion. His paintings are famed for clarity; Rivera's fiery politics are not. He has been a Communist and he talks like one still, but the party now considers him too un disciplined to let him belong...
Benevolent Boy Frog. Diego himself is a benevolent monster, six feet tall and weighing close to 250 pounds. No two people, seeing him for the first time, would be likely to describe him in the same way, but Rivera's wife, Surrealist Frida Kahlo, an accomplished painter in her own right, has pictured him as he seems to her. In a chapter written for a forthcoming book, Diego Rivera: 50 Years of His Work, she says: "Looking at Diego . . . you immediately think of a boy frog standing on his hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that...
...Rivera's mountainous form has always been a cynosure of neighboring eyes, and even among Mexico City's easygoing artists he is notorious for his good-neighbor policy, but Frida maintains a dignified silence about the women who have thronged his life. "Probably people expect of me a very personal portrait," she explains, " 'feminine,' anecdotal, diverting, full of complaints and gossip . . . Perhaps they expect to hear 'laments of 'all that has been suffered' living with a man like Diego. But I do not believe the banks of a river suffer for letting...
...True Truth. There has never been much consistency in the surging course of Artist Rivera's life. He was born 62 years ago in the mountain town of Guanajuato, and was involved almost at once in the kind of controversy that has surrounded him ever since. His mother was an ardent Catholic, his father a revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Acting with characteristic dispatch, little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swears that his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his piping diatribes against the Church...
...there is any truth in such a story, it may be what Rivera's friendly enemy and fellow muralist, Communist David Siqueiros, calls la verdad verdadera-the true truth-meaning something poetically, if not factually, true. "What is marvelous with Diego," says Siqueiros, "is that he never tells a 100% lie." Frida agrees: "He is such a liar as are poets or children who have not been turned into idiots by their parents or the school...