Diego Rivera

1886 – 1957

Art

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.

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Contemporaries

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Their World

Global Events

1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage

1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens

1898 Spanish-American War

1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight

1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles signed

1920 League of Nations established

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

1947 India and Pakistan gain independence

1948 State of Israel established

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed

1950 Korean War begins

1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins

In Their Field

1889 Van Gogh paints The Starry Night

1907 Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Cubism emerges

1913 Armory Show introduces modern art to America

1917 Duchamp exhibits Fountain; conceptual art born

1924 Surrealist Manifesto published by Andre Breton

1937 Picasso paints Guernica

1947 Jackson Pollock begins drip painting technique