Today, people can enjoy and appreciate different artistic movements. These movements emerged from the Renaissance, and have influenced in actual artists, in his beginning and development. This is the case of Diego Rivera.Diego Rivera was a featured Mexican muralist, active communist and famous for capture works of social contents in public buildings, and the creator of several murals in different parts of historic centre of Mexico City.
His complete name was Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, and he was married with Frida Khalo.
In 1907, Diego gets a scholarship that allows travel to Europe and study art works, such as Goya, El Greco, Giotto y Brueghel.
In renaissance for example, the artist search his own style, use of perspective, admiration of humans body, green and golden colours, religious topics, dark-light technique, triangular compositions, distinction of social classes, and finally, complex compositions with lot of characters.Diego Rivera painted complex compositions with lot of characters, such as El Greco. Also, he used saturated, flat and vivid colors, he painted with all Mexican folklore, disproportions, many characters in a single work, he appears in all his works, landscapes with background generating a little sense of depth, and his primary technique was the Fresco, such as the Renaissance.
One can find many similarities between Giotto di Bondone and Diego Rivera. First, similitude with Gioto in the use lot of characters and how they are accommodated into the mural; second, in pay tribute to woman as most important and mother; third, the works are painted with encaustic technique and Fresco; next, use of similar colors; and finally, the men as the center of Universe.Thanks to the Renaissance stage, because we can now enjoy a wealth of artistic expressions.
