Os semeadores diego rivera biography

Diego Rivera was born on December 8, , in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two, before Diego was even able to read, his father set up a studio for him.

The family lived in Guanajuato until , when they moved to Mexico City. At the young age of 10, Diego decided he wanted to become an artist. So he began taking evening classes at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He enrolled in military college at the request of his father.

Os semeadores diego rivera biography

But Diego did not like the strict regimen and after two weeks, in , he attended San Carlos as a full-time student. At the school’s annual show, he exhibited for the first time with 26 works and became and established painter.

But Rivera was unhappy with the new art director at the academy. And so he decided to leave the school where he had been a student for the last six years.

Diego Rivera's art was one of the columns on which one of the strongest movements in american painting