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Diego Rivera. Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter and the husband of Frida Kahlo.

Diego Rivera

His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City.[1] In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Biography Diego Rivera, Two Women (Dos Mujeres, Portrait of Angelina Beloff and Maria Dolores Bastian), 1914, oil on canvas, 197.5 x 161.3 cm, Arkansas Arts Center Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico to a well-to-do family.

Rivera was an atheist. From the age of ten, Rivera studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He died on November 24, 1957.[8] Career in Mexico En el Arsenal detail, 1928 Later years Gallery Murals. Paul Cézanne. Paul Cézanne (US /seɪˈzæn/ or UK /sɨˈzæn/; French: [pɔl sezan]; 1839–1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

Paul Cézanne

Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all. " §Life and work[edit] §Early years and family[edit] Femme au Chapeau Vert (Woman in a Green Hat. §Cézanne the artist[edit] In Paris, Cézanne met the Impressionist Camille Pissarro.

§Optical phenomena[edit] §Death[edit] Color Matters welcomes you to the world of color: Symbolism, design, vision, science, marketing and more! Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | 3:00 PM April 2, 2013 Moody, erratic, eccentric, and arrogant?

Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Perhaps — but you can’t just get rid of them. In fact, unless you learn to get the best out of your creative employees, you will sooner or later end up filing for bankruptcy. Conversely, if you just hire and promote people who are friendly and easy to manage, your firm will be mediocre at best. Suppressed creativity is a malign organizational tumour. 1. 2. The solution, then, is to support your creatives with colleagues who are too conventional to challenge their ideas, but unconventional enough to collaborate with them. 3. As novelist John Irving said, “the reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me”. 4. 5. The moral of the story?

6. 7. A final caveat: even when you are able to manage your creative employees, it does not mean that you should let them manage others. Grungy paper texture v.12 by ~bashcorpo on deviantART.

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