Diego Rivera - Mexican Artists

Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), (his full name was Diego María de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez) was a famous Mexican painter and muralist.

Diego is known as best by the public world for his 1933 mural, “Man at the Crossroads,” in the foyer of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. When his fan Nelson Rockefeller discovered, which is the mural incorporated a portrait of Lenin and other socialist imagery, he fired Rivera, and the incomplete work was finally destroyed by Rockefeller staff people. The film Cradle Will Rock contains a dramatization of the controversy.

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