Google Doodle today celebrates the 125th birth anniversary of legendary Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico, Rivera's large wall works in fresco are believed to have helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement.
Rivera joined Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City at the age of ten to study art. Later he moved to Europe where he initially studied in Madrid, Spain, and from there went to Paris, France, to live and work with the artists in Montparnasse.
A communist, Rivera was greatly inspired by the political ideals of the Mexican Revolution (1914-15) and the Russian Revolution (1917). Through his art, he sought to reflect the lives of the working class and native people of Mexico.
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