Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME'S editors decided to do a cover story on Mexico's Diego Rivera, they asked the artist if he would like to do his own cover portrait. As a result, a new self-portrait of Rivera, drawn to TIME'S specifications, appears on this week's cover-the first time that a cover subject has done his own portrait for TIME...
...works of Diego Rivera that are reproduced in this issue, it took Mexico City Photographer Juan Guzman about a month to photograph them in color. His principal headache was the controversial mural in the Hotel Del Prado. Although it is his latest and, Rivera maintains, his best, it still reposes behind red, hinged shutters in the main dining room. Getting the shutters open was not difficult, but nothing could be done with the dining room posts that stood in Guzman's way. Eventually, he shot around them and, the mural being an extensive one, he sent...
...preparation for the Rivera story, TIME'S Art editor, Alexander Eliot, and Researcher Ruth Brine went to Mexico City to spend ten days with him. Their introduction to Mexican ways was abrupt and, in Eliot's case, painful. They had arranged to pick Rivera up at his home for dinner and, while waiting for him outside in the car, Eliot doubled up with a sharp, agonizing attack of what could only be dysentery. When Rivera came out to meet them, he regarded Eliot for a moment and said, simply: "There is a cure for this...
...Rivera directed them to a friend's house, roused a woman there, and emerged a half hour later to advise Eliot, who by that time had the chills, "Your tea is ready." Eliot drank the tea, which tasted like nothing he had ever encountered before, and insisted on knowing what was in it. The woman said it would be better if he didn't, and gave him a second cup. Finally, she said: "It's an Indian recipe - my grandmother's. It's made of powdered cockerel's whiskers." "That may be," says Eliot...
Eliot and Mrs. Brine's motive in being with Rivera was, of course, to get to know him and his work at first hand. In the process they underwent a thorough lecture course on mural painting and on pre-Cortesian sculpture. Rivera showed them hundreds of his sculptures, one by one, and stood for hours on end while he explained his archaeological theories. He also accompanied them on a trip to see his murals. After a long, silent examination of one of them Rivera turned and said: "I haven't seen this mural since I painted...