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History in the time of Diego Rivera:
By: Kara Leanza

Q: During the beginning of his career, Rivera spent some time in Paris during WWI learning about the Cubist movement. While the traditional Cubism style was created by an impaired view of two-dimensional forms, what unique methods did Rivera use to put his own influence in Cubism? A) Sand B) Rice C) Sawdust D) Rice and Sand E) Sand and Sawdust

A: E) Sand and Sawdust

Source: SMU (@http://www.smu.edu/News/2009/diego-rivera-exhibit-21june2009) "Rivera developed and experimented with Cubist techniques, incorporating unusual materials such as sand and sawdust into his oil paintings in order to creat texture."

Q: During the years 1932 and 1933, which American icons did Diego Rivera paint murals for?

A: Henry Ford and the Rockefellers

Source: PBS (@http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/diego-rivera/about-the-artist/64/) "In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Rivera arrived in Detroit, where, at the behest of Henry Ford, he began a paean to the American worker on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts." "In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Rivera arrived in Detroit, where, at the behest of Henry Ford, he began a paean to the American worker on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts"

Q: In Rivera’s 1933 mural “Man at the Crossroads” the benefactors became enraged with the painting when they saw the portrait of _ leading the march. When Rivera refused to alter the painting it was destroyed.

A: John Lenin

Source: PBS (@http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/diego-rivera/about-the-artist/64/)" It was not the subject matter of the panel that inflamed the patrons, but the clear portrait of Lenin leading the demonstration"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: Which Mexican president commissioned Rivera to begin the murals for the National Palace? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A) José Clemente Orozco <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">B) Emilio Portes Gil <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">C) Lázaro Cárdenas <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">D) David Alfaro Siqueiros

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: B) Emilio Portes Gil

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Source: Kenyon College (@http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Mll/Spanish/Projects/Trejo-Zacarias/english.htm)"This mural was commissioned in 1929 during the presidency of Emilio Portes Gil"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Style of Diego Rivera:
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: Diego Rivera experimented with various styles and techniques, and emulated old masters such as <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A) Raphael <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">B) Leonardo da Vinci <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">C) El Greco <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">D) Michelangelo

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: C) El Greco

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Source: Olga's Gallery (@http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rivera/riverabio.html); "While in Europe, Rivera experimented with a great variety of styles and techniques, emulating the old masters like El Greco and the painters of the Italian and Northern Renaissances, experimenting with Classicism and Impressionism, dabbling in the contemporary movements of Cubism and Post-Impressionism and finally settling on the simple, straightforward Realist style that would characterize most of his later work."

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: According to this Diego Rivera Biography Rivera worked in a _ style inspired by artists such as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, and Henri Matisse.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: postimpressionist

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Source: Encyclopedia of World Biography (@http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Rivera-Diego.html); "In Paris he was influenced by impressionist painters, particularly Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). Later he worked in a postimpressionist style inspired by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Georges Seurat (1859–1891), Henri Matisse (1869–1954), Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), and Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920)."

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: This website discusses Diego Rivera as an artist, while this website displays many of his paintings. Two defining characteristics of Rivera's developed style are mentioned in the article in the first link and evident in the paintings seen in the second link. What are the two characteristics?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: large, simplified figures and bold colors

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Source: ArtInThePicture.com (@http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Diego_Rivera/Biography/); "Rivera was a prolific Mexican artist. He became famous for murals that portrayed Mexican life and history. Rivera was a controversial figure because of his radical political beliefs and his attacks on the church and clergy. Although Rivera was born in Guanajuato, in the 1920s he became involved in the new Mexican mural movement. With such Mexican artists as José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo, he began to experiment with fresco painting on large walls. Rivera soon developed his own style of large, simplified figures and bold colors."

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Contemporary Western Artists
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Refer to Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery website for the following questions.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: Emil Bisttram one of Diego Rivera’s contemporary western artists was born in what country?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: Hungary

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: Where did his family migrate to?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: New York

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: What is the relationship that Diego Rivera and Emil Bisttram have?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: Teacher and Student

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: Emil Bisttram co-founded what Association?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: Taos Art Association

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Source: Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery (@http://www.medicinemangallery.com/bio/emilbisttram.lasso) “Emil Bisttram was born in Hungary, near the Romanian border, in 1895.”;” When he was 11 years old, his family immigrated to New York City”; The fellowship enabled Emil Bisttram to travel to Mexico where he studied mural painting with the world famous muralist Diego Rivera.”; “In 1952 he co-founded the Taos Art Association, and in ’59 won the Grand Prize for painting at the New Mexico State Fair”

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: Who met Diego Rivera at the Palacio Municipal by chance after an evening ballet with his wife? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A) Shintaro Takeda <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">B) Ettore DeGarzia <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">C) Sullivan Gross

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">A: B) Ettore De Garzia

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Source: Squidoo (@http://www.squidoo.com/meet-ted-degrazia) “Then on a rare vacation to Mexico City in 1942, DeGrazia and his wife left an evening ballet performance and headed to the Palacio Municipal where muralist Diego Rivera was working.”

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">By: Catherine Mauldin
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: In what year did Diego Rivera change the course of American art and get to paint his first two [|American commissions]? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A) 1940 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">B) 1958 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">C) 1886 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">D) 1930

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: D) 1939

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: After Rivera’s mural was destroyed at [|Rockefeller Center], where did he later repaint it? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A) Rockefeller Center <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">B) Detroit Institute of Arts <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">C) California School of Fine Arts <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">D) Palace of Fine Arts

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: D) Palace of Fine Arts

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: According to the [|National Gallery of Art], about when did Rivera become friends with Pablo Picasso who influenced his art?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A) 1934 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">B) 1972 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">C) 1914 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">D) 1910

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: C) 1914

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">By: Brittany Taylor Wentlandt
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: Because the young artist enjoyed drawing on the walls and furniture in the house, his father built him............... <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A) a treehouse <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">B) a small house of his own <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">C) wheel-around toys to keep him occupied <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">D) a canvas-covered studio

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: D) a canvas-covered studio <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">"His father soon built him a studio with canvas-covered walls and art supplies to keep the young artist from drawing on the walls and furniture in the house."

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: When Diego's father realized that his son's art career wasn't going anywhere, he helped him win a..............., awarded by Governor of the Province of Veracruz, so he could............. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A) boat; study abroad <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">B) scholarship; study abroad <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">C) boat; stay home <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">D) scholarship; stay home

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: B) scholarship; study abroad <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> "Realizing that his son was getting nowhere in his chosen profession, Rivera senior helped Diego win a scholarship, awarded by the Governor of the Province of Veracruz, to study abroad."

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Q: A few years before his death, Diego married his art dealer,.................

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">A: Emma Hurtado; "In 1955, after a diagnosis of cancer, Rivera married his art dealer Emma Hurtado. His health deteriorated rapidly and on November 24, 1957 he died quietly of heart failure."

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Image Index <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Figure 1. Sailor at Home ( @http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41aXB4GK0FL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Figure 2. Man at Crossroads ([]) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Figure 3. Cubist Landscape ( @http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/005/w500h420/CRI_157005.jpg) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Figure 4. Mexican Family ( @http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_185068_633009_diego-rivera.jpg) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Figure 5. Evening Twilight ( []) Figure 7. Mural at National Palace ([]) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Figure 8. Diego as a Kid ([] ) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Figure 9. Woman ( [])