Diego Rivera was born in Mexico in a city called Guanajuato which means the land of frogs As a boy Diego enjoyed playing with his trains but more than anything he liked to draw HAVE IT TIBUT IT IT
Diego loved drawing so much that when he was a young man he sailed on a ship across the ocean He went to the city of Madrid in Spain to study art under the direction of a well known painter There he learned the classical way to paint which means his finished paintings looked very realistic almost like photographs O CO
After his studies Diego went to Paris the capital of France There he met young artists who were painting in new and exciting ways He experimented with these new methods of painting himself One method was called Cubism in which the painting did not exactly resemble its subject but was composed of geometric A shapes such as squares circles and triangles TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
One day a politician named José Vasconcelos urged Diego to return to Mexico He wanted Diego and other artists to paint murals around the city about the Mexican people's history and customs Diego was thrilled by this new project h
