1. Diego Rivera
By: Heidi Hamilton

2. Self portrait, 1907

3. Origin Diego Rivera was born on ocho de Deciembre, 1886
In Guanajuato, Mexico to Diego and Maria Barrientos Rivera
Lived in Guanajuato until 1892, when they moved to Mexico City

4. Time line
At age ten Diego starting taking evening printing classes at the San Carlos Academy
In 1898 he enrolled there as a full time student
In 1906 at the academy’s annual show, he exhibited for the first time, with 26 works
By age twenty Diego was an established painter

5. Diego’s other accomplishments
In addition to painting (by now he was focused on murals) Diego participated in the founding of the revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and sculptors in fall of 1922
Later that year he joined the Mexican Communist party

6. In the years that followed, Diego was engaged by the Soviet Revolution
The Agitator

7. Travels In 1907 Diego got a travel grant, and went to Spain
He also went to France, Belgium, and England
In the autumn of 1927 Diego took a trip to the Soviet Union, as a member of an official delegation of the Mexican Communist Party