In January 1922, he painted – experimentally in encaustic –his first significant muralCreation in the Bolívar Auditorium of the National Preparatory School in Mexico City while guarding himself with a pistol against right-wingstudents.In the autumn of 1922, Rivera participated in the founding of ...
Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter whose bold large-scale murals stimulated a revival of fresco painting in Latin America. A government scholarship enabled Rivera to study art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City from age 10, and a grant from the
WhenNelson Rockefellerasked Rivera to replace Lenin with a portrait of an “everyman,” Rivera refused, stating that he would prefer to see the whole mural destroyed than to alter it. Two weeks later Rivera was paid and dismissed from the job; carpenters immediately covered the mural in a whi...