Nadia Herzog

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Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957), a renown Mexican painter and muralist, started studying art when he was 11 years old at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City and continued learning throughout his life. In 1902, tough, Rivera was expelled from...

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The signed and dated oil on canvas entitled Baile en Tehuantepec, painted by Diego Rivera in 1928, is the artwork of this Mexican painter that was sold for the highest price among all of his artworks. The painting shows dancing men and women in a festive...

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A flower seller is one of the motives that Diego Rivera painted the most. And here it is again – one more time, one of his Vendedora de Flores paintings has found its place among the Rivera’s most expensive paintings sold at auctions. Particularly this...

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This oil on canvas by Diego Rivera has an impressive exhibition history and the provenance. From Frances Flynn Paine in New York it was acquired by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1931, and then given to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1936, as a...

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The full name of this art piece is Naturaleza muerta con flores, escudilla de fruta libro y tarro de Jengibre, although it is referred to with a shorter name too. The technique for this painting is oil on canvas laid on canvas, and it is signed, dated, and...

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One of Rivera’s landscapes also had found its way to art collectors out there. His early-career painting showing the lands of the Spanish town Toledo first was sold at Christie’s New York in 1992, for the price of $1,100,000, the same it had been...

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Once again, one of the Diego Rivera’s paintings depicting a flower seller was valued very high. This oil on canvas appears somehow more sophisticated than his usual presentation women and girls selling flowers. With back turned to the viewer, this woman is...

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Vendedora de Alcatraces is a signed and dated watercolour gouache on paper artwork by Diego Rivera, sized 134.5 x 191 cm. It depicts a woman flower seller, like many other works of his. He didn’t choose only political figures for his work, but rather the...

Graffiti & Street Art | Nadia Herzog

If you care about the urban space and you live in Berlin, or you just happen to love that city, and if you are aware of the influence that urban art has on the citizens and the city itself, then this is your opportunity to show it. Join the efforts of the...

Art Exhibitions | Nadia Herzog

RocketByz Art by visual artist Tomyboy is just about to be exhibited at Hamburg’s gallery Pop Art & Street Art. The solo show of German-born and an LA-based artist will present his images of neon colors, quite unique creations made out of various...

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If you’ve heard about Diego Rivera, you’ve probably heard about his murals too. But how did it all start? As a young artist from Mexico, Diego Rivera enjoyed truly inspirational 15 years he had spent in Europe, from 1907 to 1921. When he returned...

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Being an atheist and a communist had caused some trouble in Diego Rivera’s career. But, he didn’t really care. He did things his own way, as he thought was for the best, and he hardly ever made compromises about his work. There were several situations...

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Detroit Industry represents probably the most famous one of all Diego Rivera murals. It consists of 27 fresco panels painted on the interior walls at the Detroit Institute of Art. The murals are painted during 1932 and 1933, and they are based on the lives of...

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Another example of the controversy caused by Diego Rivera’s communist side is his mural Man at the Crossroads, which he began to paint in 1933 for the Rockefeller Center in New York City. Before he finished it, it was removed after furiously negative...

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‘My mural will picture the fusion between the great past of the Latin American lands, as it is deeply rooted in the soil, and the high mechanical developments of the United States’, Diego Rivera wrote in 1940 when he painted the mural The Marriage...

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In September 1930, Rivera accepted an invitation from an architect Timothy L. Pflueger to paint for him in San Francisco. After arriving, accompanied by his newlywed wife Frida Kahlo, Rivera painted his first mural in the US, The Allegory of California, at...

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Many of Diego Rivera murals depicted Mexican history and society, especially the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The mural In the Arsenal from 1928 is no exception. Detail of the In the Arsenal mural depicted here shows Frida Kahlo while she is handing out munition...

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Creation was the first of Diego Rivera murals. He started painting it in January 1922, and it was rather experimental within the encaustic technique, but it would become truly significant for the career ahead of him. The mural was painted in the Bolívar...