Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), (his full name was Diego María de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez) was a famous Mexican painter and muralist.
Diego is known as best by the public world for his 1933 mural, “Man at the Crossroads,” in the foyer of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. When his fan Nelson Rockefeller discovered, which is the mural incorporated a portrait of Lenin and other socialist imagery, he fired Rivera, and the incomplete work was finally destroyed by Rockefeller staff people. The film Cradle Will Rock contains a dramatization of the controversy.
Jose Clemente Orozco. Photo Credit: Edward WestonJose Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883, in Zapotlan el Grande (now Ciudad Guzman), Jalisco; died September 7, 1949, in Mexico City) was a famous Mexican social realist painter who was most specialized in bold murals. Orozco was fond of the theme of the human vs. the mechanical. He was also a type painter and lithographer. He studied in Mexico City at the San Carlos Academy. With Diego Rivera, he was a head of the Mexican Renaissance. A significant distinction he had from Rivera was his vital view of the Mexican Revolution. While Diego was a bold, buoyant figure, touting the splendor of the revolution, Orozco was less at ease with the bloody toll the social movement was taking.
His other works comprise Prometheus (1930, at Pomona College, California), Zapata (1930), The Man of Fire (1939), and Christ Destroying His Cross (1943).
Juan O’Gorman (July 6, 1905 - January 17, 1982) was a famous Mexican artist, both a painter and an architect.
O’Gorman was born in Coyoacán, Mexican Federal District, a community within superior Mexico City, to an Irish father, Cecil Crawford O’Gorman (a painter himself) and a Mexican mother. In the 1920s he studied structural design at the Academy of San Carlos, the Art and Architecture school at National University, Mexico. He became a renowned architect, worked on the new Bank of Mexico building, and under the power of Le Corbusier introduced modern functionalist architecture to Mexico City.
His paintings often treated Mexican history, scenery, and legends. He painted the murals in the Independence Room in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Castle.
Luis Nishizawa (born 1920 in San Mateo Ixtacalco, Mexico) is a famous Mexican painter of Japanese descent.
Nishizawa’s artistic studies started when he took admission in the Academy of San Carlos in 1942 and during 1951, the date of his first display in the Hall of Mexican Plastic Art; he has been an untiring producer and advocate of Mexican art. His traditional approach and his decrease and generalization of forms ally him with such immense landscape painters as Dr Atl, Gerardo Murillo. He also gave classes at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) during 1955. Nishizawa is known as one of Mexico’s biggest landscape artists of the 20th century. He currently works and teaches in Toluca, in a late eighteenth-century house, which he has converted to a studio and museum.
Gerald Murillo (born October 3, 1875, Guadalajara, Jalisco – 1964, Mexico City) was a famous Mexican painter who signed his work “Dr. Atl”. He started to study painting at an early age in Jalisco, under Felipe Castro. At the age of 21, Murillo entered the National School of Fine Arts in Mexico City to pursue in his studies.
Dr. Atl became very lively in Mexico when he returned. He led art exhibits sponsoring the luminous painters of his time, Francisco de la Torre, Diego Rivera, and Ponce de Leon.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian famous artist who works with his own ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance.
He created what might be the world’s biggest interactive installation, Vectorial Elevation; a work, which was installed in Mexico City during 1999, in Vitoria-Gasteiz during 2002, in Lyon in 2003 and in Dublin in April-May 2004.
He received several prizes, including an Ars Electronica Golden Nica in 2000.
Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico’s most well-known artists and even feminist icon, celebrated for her fervent incommutability in the face of life’s trials. She’s best known for her bold self-portraits portray the pain she skilled in her personal life. As a child Kahlo had polio; at the age of 18 she broke her right leg and pelvis in a terrible bus accident, foremost to a lifetime of constant pain. Partially motionless after the accident, Kahlo began painting during late 1920s.
She married famous muralist Diego Rivera during 1929 and together they traveled in United States, staying in Detroit and New York City in the early 1930s. In the late 1930s Kahlo had show of her paintings in New York City and Paris and linked with some of the well-liked painters in the world. Kahlo and Rivera were both recognized for their extramarital affairs and in 1940 they divorced for a short time before remarrying. During the ’40s Kahlo gained global credit for her colorful and sometimes grisly paintings (as well as for her bold public persona), but she sustained to have health problems. She died in 1954 just after her 47th birthday.