Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporting Diego Rivera's newest publicity-winning outburst-this time in the world of couture [TIME, May 3]-you might have added that his wife, Frida Kahlo ... is Mexico's best woman painter...
...Mexico's active volcanoes was in eruption again: 61-year-old Diego Rivera. Mexican women, he rumbled in public and private, dress too much like U.S. women. Not that Artist Rivera had anything against American womanhood...
...Cried Rivera: "The classic Mexican dress [flowing skirt, blouse and shawl-like rebozo]has been created by people for people. The Mexican women who do not wear it do not belong to the people, but are mentally and emotionally dependent on a foreign class to which they wish to belong, i.e., the great American and French bureaucracy." His wife and fellow artist, Frida Kahlo, said he, has worn nothing but Mexican clothes for 22 years, and when she went to Paris in 1939, Madame Elsa Schiaparelli was so impressed that she designed a "robe Madame Rivera...
...time, the truth was hard to come by. The aggrieved bus driver said that, when he failed to pull his bus out of the way of Rivera's car, the famed muralist had pumped bullets at him from a .45 semiautomatic. "Nonsense," cried Artist David Siqueiros. At the moment Rivera was supposed to have been squeezing the trigger, he was actually in Jose Clemente Orozco's apartment heaving charges of artistic ineptitude at his host and Siqueiros himself...
...week's end, Rivera ungraciously exposed Siqueiros' attempt to supply him with an alibi. In a letter to El Popular Diego admitted that he had indeed shot at the bus driver-but with a blank cartridge. Denouncing efforts to picture him as a lover of the proletariat who went around shooting proletarians, Rivera said that he had shot in self-defense after the bus driver had tried to run him down. He had been coming home peacefully in his station wagon, he said, when he found the Calle Centenario blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced...