Revolución Mexicana

Diego Rivera.

Mexican painter who created murals with social issues, considered one of the great nineteenth century artists. Born in Guanajuato and educated at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Mexico City. Between 1907 and 1921 he studied painting in Europe, mainly in Spain and France, becoming familiar with the innovative cubist forms of Pablo Picasso, the impressionism of Renoir,Cezanne's composition and other artists of the time. 
In 1921, Rivera returned to Mexico, where he represented a decisive role in the renaissance of mural painting initiated by artists and sponsored by the government.He devoted himself to painting large frescoes on the history and social problems of the country, roofs and walls of public buildings, as he felt that art should serve the working classand be readily available or available. 
Between 1923 and 1926 did the murals in the cool of the Department of Education in Mexico City, but his masterpiece is The fertile land (1927) for National Agricultural School of Chapingo, which represents the biological development of man and his conquest of nature. 
Diego Rivera painted murals in the Palacio de Cortes in Cuernavaca (1930) and theMinistry of Health. 
In 1929 he married Frida Kahlo, considered an eminent representative of the Mexican introspective painting of the twentieth century. 
He was one of the founders of the Mexican Communist Party. 
His fame led him to exhibit and work in the U.S., his work there includes a mural (1932-1933) for the Institute of Fine Arts in Detroit and a cool, Man at the Crossroads (1933),commissioned for the new building RCA at Rockefeller Center in New York, and destroyed shortly after its completion because it contained, apparently, a portrait of Soviet leader Lenin. A year later, Rivera played for the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico. 
In 1935 he completed one of its most ambitious projects, the frescoes for the monumental staircase of the National Palace in Mexico City, with its owninterpretation of the history of their country, from pre-Columbian times to the present. In the 1940 he painted two large murals at the National Institute of Cardiology (1944), and a large mural for the Hotel del Prado, Alameda Dream (1947), historical-critical topic. His latest works are made of natural stone tile, as the stadium of the university town of Mexico or the Insurgentes Theater, both onthe outside. 
Diego Rivera was also prolific in his easel, with a very cheerful and sensual folklore of his country. Super masterful draftsman and colorist, showed a talent for structuring his works. Mexico reached an important collection of statues of various Indian cultures that settled in his home museum, the Anahuacalli in Mexico City. As he said, summarizing the meaning of his work, hispurpose was to link a great past with what we want to be a great future in Mexico. He died on November 24, 1957 in Mexico City. 

José Clemente Orozco

On November 23, 1883 was born that would later become one of the great muralists of Mexico: José Clemente Orozco. A native of Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco.
Creating an essentially mural painting, highlighted among its themes of social content andthe politics of post-revolutionary Mexico in a radical stance, expressing its dissatisfaction over the situation in the country.

Until 1906 is fully starting to study painting in San Carlos and in 1910 participated in an exhibition organized by the Alumni Society, Painters and Sculptors of the Academy.

In the same year he joined the group Art Center, which tried to get,unsuccessfully, to paint public walls. Around the same time involved and as a cartoonist and illustrator in "frivolous" and "matter " as for "Panchito" and "Ahuizote" in 1911, "La Vanguardia" in 1915 and "El Heraldo de Mexico" in 1920 , Amongothers.
Back in Mexico City in 1921 along with Diego Rivera and others founded theSolidarity Group of the Labor Movement and in 1922 created his first murals in the National...