Diego Rivera

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This controversial artist, influenced by communism and the gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. and Mexico, created a distinctive new style of painting that grew out of traditional Mexican native art.

Introduces the life and accomplishments of the artist who invented a Mexican style of painting and who brought art out of museums and onto public walls.