People have always expressed themselves through art, some people because they want to make their viewers think, some to protest current issues. Some gain support from the community that outweighs political controversy but some like Diego Rivera are censored due to their statements made through their art like in his piece, “Man at the Crossroads”. Diego Rivera is known for the mural he painted in Mexico City that was destroyed due to controversy. The art itself wasn’t the only protest involved in the situation, despite widespread protest throughout the current art community the mural was still destroyed due to the messages it sent.
Born in 1886 Diego Rivera was born to a wealthy family living in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two his twin brother died and a year later Diego Rivera started drawing, his parents caught him drawing on walls and instead of punishing him nurtured his artistic side by enabling him with the supplies he needed. Throughout his life Diego Rivera was dedicated to art, “He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.” Influenced by the work of such great minds Rivera began the search for his own signature and contribution to modern art, “Rivera was searching for a new form of painting, one that could express the complexities of his day and still reach a wide audience.” Rivera found the medium he was looking for, a form of street art involving murals painted on fresh plaster, he returned to Mexico to introduce this new form of art to the public. Rivera soon sewed himself into the art community in America, “His outgoing personality puts him at ...
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...l Rivera had in mind I don’t think he achieved it, but he did achieve something, whether or not they agreed with his ideas in the art artists everywhere banded together for a movement encouraging free artistic expression. Working with your opposite for a common good is a goal us humans will never firmly grasp as a whole. Rivera died during the earlier stages of the cold war and never go to experience the peak and downfall of communism or the scientific advancements we experienced in the wake of the breaking of tension.
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