Mural painting is one of the oldest and most important forms of artistic, political and social expression. Mexican muralists, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros revived this form of painting in Mexico. Their murals were based on the political and social conditions of the...

My artist's name is Diego Rivera, and he is a Mexican painter who made murals on social themes and who was one of Mexico's greatest artists. He was born in Guanajuato and went to school at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. He studied painting in Europe between 1907 and 1921...

Diego Rivera's painting, "Mecanización del Campo," contains a great amount of symbolism and meaning because it is a reflection of the feelings he cannot put into words. The figures represented in this painting are that of a woman, sitting in the center, three men standing on the right, three oth...