USM Open Source History Text: The World at War: World History 1914-1945Main MenuIntroduction: A Mural as WindowOn Diego Rivera's Detroit IndustryThe World Around 1914, Part I: the Journey of Young GandhiThe World Around 1914, Part II: The Era of Nationalism and Imperialism (1848-1914)The First World WarThe Long Russian Revolution (1917 – 1929)The Decline of the West? Europe from 1919 – 1929A New Middle East: The Rise of the Middle East State SystemChina Between Qing Collapse and WWIILatin America Between Boom and Bust (1911-1929)Africa Under Colonial Rule: Politics and Race from 1914‐1939The United States from The First World War to the Great DepressionThree Varieties of Radicalism in the 1930s: Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Imperial JapanThree Responses to Modernity: Ho Chi Minh, Ibn Saud and Getulio VargasThe Second World WarSeth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c
Diego Rivera in Europe
12017-12-15T00:46:31-08:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c192373plain2017-12-22T01:27:41-08:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929cDiego Rivera was born in 1886. He studied art in Mexico City. In 1909, Rivera went to Paris, where he became friends with artists like Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani. Such a group of friends points to the incredible ability of Paris to attract artists from around Europe and the world in the years leading up to and following the First World War. Picasso was from southern Spain and had lived in both Barcelona and Madrid, but Paris would be his artist center during his long and protean life as an artist. Modigliani was from Livorno, Italy, the son of Sephardic Jews. His family had been successful in business only to fall into bankruptcy during the financial downturn of the 1880s. Modigliani studied throughout Italy, in Rome, Florence, and Venice before moving in Paris in 1906. This intersection of Rivera, Picasso and Modigliani is just one example of thousands of such cross-cultural pollinations that was happening in Paris during these years. One can only imagine the intensity of the intellectual and creative energy coursing through the city, constantly shaping and reshaping visual arts, literature, philosophy, and politics. As a recent exhibition at LACMA demonstrates, the affinities between Rivera and Picasso went well beyond formalism and encompassed important thematic concerns. See this short video for more.
This page has paths:
12017-06-08T06:02:19-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929cIntroduction: A Mural as WindowSeth Rogoff13On Diego Rivera's Detroit Industrysplash4629312020-08-20T03:26:01-07:00Seth Rogoff5f001fc099cd635507b143be056702764af6929c