Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got used to the easy Mexican tempo and to the admiring friends who gather round Rivera wherever he appears. His courtesy and rocklike equanimity in answering every question Eliot and Mrs. Brine put to him were most impressive. Rivera, in turn, was impressed by Mrs. Brine's almost continuous note-taking. Whenever she stopped recording his conversation, it worried him. Once, when she paused for a rest during a discussion of Rivera's experiences in the U.S., he gestured toward her notebook. "No," she explained, "we can't possibly print everything...
...Altogether," Eliot says, "it was a warm, rewarding experience, and in many ways a surprising one. Rivera is a many-sided man, and if we had had to rely only on the books and articles that have been written about him we would have missed most of Rivera. He has to be seen to be appreciated...
...bellyache in the process. But inside the museum's marble halls last week, work men were uncrating the paintings of one Mexican who took Europe in his stride and came home to en rich his country with great art that it could call its own. His name: Diego Rivera. The crates in the Palace of Fine Arts held 500 pic tures ranging from the academic studies and cubist experiments of Rivera's student days to the power fully realistic productions of his maturity, assembled for a retro spective show opening...
...show would help clinch Rivera's reputation as the Western Hemisphere's finest living painter...
...murals, for which he is most famed, are often as vast as novels, while the paintings of most of his contemporaries are short stories at best. Among Rivera's own mural-painting countrymen, none can match either his native drive or his European-trained virtuosity...