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Following up on my post about Frida Kahlo’s home in Mexico City, La Casa Azul, I’d like to share photos I took of the murals painted on walls in the Mexican National Palace by Diego Rivera, Frida’s husband.
The Palace can be seen below, running along the eastern side of the Zocalo, the enormous square in the heart of Mexico City. This photo was taken in December 2019, and part of the square is being used for a skating rink. Interestingly, the rink surface is not ice, but a product called Glice®, described as an “eco-friendly” ice skating surface, using no water, power or chemical resurfacing to operate. December 2019 was the first time in many years that the Zocalo rink was not created with water. The rink can support 1200 skaters at a time, according to press materials.
Diego Rivera (1886- 1957) was a controversial artist, an avowed atheist and communist, who painted murals with historical and political messages in both hi
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Diego Rivera
DIEGO RIVERA - BIOGRAPHY
Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter considered one of the three most important muralists in Mexico, along with José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros; as well as one of the most internationally recognized artists of the 20th century.
Diego Rivera was born on månad 8, 1886 in the City of Guanajuato. His family moved to Mexico City in 1892. From the age of three he began to draw and at the age of ten he began studying art courses at night at the Academia de San Carlos. In 1898, he won a scholarship that allowed him to förteckning at the Academia dem San Carlos as a regular lärjunge. Some of his main teachers were José María Velasco, Félix Parra and Santiago Rebull. In 1902, he received another monthly scholarship from the Governor of Veracruz, Teodoro A. Dehesa, who liked to support and promote art. At that time, Diego Rivera and other ung students at the academy were influenced by the ideas of Gerard