In Love with Rivera

Inspired by Diego Rivera

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Art Museum Collections Series

24 x 36 Art Museum Oil Painting on Canvas

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Diego Rivera was known for painting

huge murals, really huge so I thought doing

one of his famous calla lily paintings as a mural

would be fun. It is my favorite flower as well so

I really enjoyed painting this for my collector

especially in this nice size of 24 x 36. A really

nice conversation piece.

Enjoy

In Love with Rivera

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Rivera began drawing when he was only three, just a year after his twin brother's death. He had been caught drawing on the walls. His parents, rather than punishing him, installed chalkboards and canvas on the walls for the young painter to make use of.

As an adult, Rivera was a notorious womanizer who had fathered at least one illegitimate child. He married Angelina Beloff in 1911, and she gave birth to a son, Diego (1916–1918). Maria Vorobieff-Stebelskagave birth to a daughter named Marika in 1918 or 1919 when Rivera was married to Angelina (according to House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera and Angelina's memoirs called Memorias). He married his second wife, Guadalupe Marín, in June 1922, with whom he had two daughters: Ruth and Guadalupe. He was still married when he met art student Frida Kahlo. They married on August 21, 1929 when he was 42 and she was 22. Their mutual infidelities and his violent temper led to divorce in 1939, but they remarried December 8, 1940 in San Francisco.

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