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, studying the cubist forms of the French
             painters Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso.
             In 1921, Riviera went back to to Mexico and took a prominent part in the revival of mural
             painting initiated by artists and sponsored by the government. He thought that art should
             serve the working people and be available to them to see, he worked on painting
             big frescoes, dealing with the history and social problems of Mexico, on the walls of
             public buildings. His works during the 1930s included frescoes the Ministry of Educational
             Mexico City and in the National Agricultural School in Chapingo. Rivera was an active
             member of the Mexican Communist Party , and he painted murals in the National Palace,
             Mexico City 1929, and the Palace Cortes , Cuernavaca in1930 .In 1929 Riviera married
             Frida Kahlo who is now considered to have been one of the 20th century's greatest
             I think what I like the most is the murals that he painted. I liked how he drew the
             Indian people, their faces, the scenery, the palace, and his style. Riviera's murals are full of
             archeological detail and painted in sharply outlined , linear style. Most of them have
             clear , three dimensional figures in a small space ,. Rivera also made neat easel paintings
             and portraits and designed and built his Mexico City house, the Anahuacalli, which is
             now a museum home to the huge collection of pre-Columbian art that he left for
             Mexican people to view whenever . I liked the water colors that Riviera used for the
             murals and the way he painted the pictures . I imagine take him a long time to draw the
             murals and paint them and drawing the faces . I have s...