As a professional painter his work is not classified as Folk Art.
Diego Rivera(born in 1886) was ell known throughout Mexico for creating political murals using geometric shapes.
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Diego Rivera was a Mexican artist and political radical. He was a loud and proud Communist who made bold and unapologetic statements through his use of mural painting. He was the one-time husband to fellow painter Frida Kahlo who was both lover and protoge and famous for her self-portraits.
Rivera mainly used oil paint, sometimes on canvas, sometimes on masonite.
Mexican Folk art is known as Popular Art, Arte Popular. It is the indigenous creative art work of the people of their country, the common people. The Mexican people are extremely talented and can make very high quality art with little cost. They have always been gifted with how to use color and local materials to create international acclaimed folk art, identifiable worldwide. Embroidery and weaving is mastered with traditional values passed down in their patterns and meanings from generation to generation.
From his early childhood, Diego Rivera began to paint; his parents encouraged him to continue and perfect his technique. There is an urban legend that says his parents caught him painting on the walls of his house to express his pain, after his twin brother died at the age of three. Instead of punishing him, they installed blackboards and canvases on the walls for him to use.
A.True hello why would he paint in public places if he didn't want the public views.
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Rivera's paintings exemplifies his unique style of large, simplified figures, with bold colours, and, an Aztec influence, many of them dealt with Mexican Society and Revolution. Diego Rivera painted what he saw. He refused to paint Lenin but was asked to remove Lenin from the painting. He refused, so he was asked to leave. He painted Murals, Portraits, and continued to be a successful painter. Diego Rivera feels that he was painting his own house . He Says, he imagined his own house living room, looking from the window, he saw someone riding in a boat, and listening to music. He use vibrant colours which looks majestically with vivid and vibrant colours. His paintings are bright and colourful.
Let's put it this way: it's "AP Certified" so it won't hurt your skin if you get it on you, but I wouldn't use it as makeup.
· Asian and African indigenous art reflect nature and the life of the common folk through various media techniques and processes based on the factors of time, climate, resources, ideas and historical and cultural context.
I heard a great folk song yesterday! Let's go see the folk dancers next!