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Diego Rivera Biography
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1886 |
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December 8th; born in Guanajuato, Mexico.
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1907 |
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Sent to Spain to study; travels throughout France, Belgium, Holland, and England. Encounters the work of the Fauves and Cezanne.
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1929 |
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Marries second wife, Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo.
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1957 |
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November 24th; dies due to heart failure.
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1948
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Painting in Mexico that included the words "God does not exist" was covered and held from public view for nine years.
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1947
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Together with Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, forms the National Institute of Fine Arts' (INBA) Commission for Mural-Painting.
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1933
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Diego started work on a mural, Man at the Crossroads, in Radio City in the Rockefeller Center in New York. However, a conflict arose over a portrait of Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, and the mural was chipped off the wall and destroyed February 9, 1934.
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1931
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Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This was the Museum's fourteenth exhibition and only its second one man show.
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1930
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Arrives in San Francisco to paint a mural for the Stock Exchange.
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1916
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Exhibition in New York City
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1913
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Paints his first Cubist works and exhibits at the Autumn Salon.
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1910
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Exhibition in Mexico. The wife of the powerful president Porifirio Diaz buys six of the forty paintings shown.
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