“Rivera grounded his murals in the colours of Mexican earth and sky — terracotta and cobalt — building monumental figures out of folk-bright primaries.”
Diego Rivera
Painter · Modernism · 1886–1957
Mexican muralist whose public walls staged workers and pre-Columbian myth in bold terracotta, cobalt, and folk yellow.
The Palette
Curatorial Note
“Rivera grounded his murals in the colours of Mexican earth and sky — terracotta and cobalt — building monumental figures out of folk-bright primaries.”
Mexican muralist whose public walls staged workers and pre-Columbian myth in bold terracotta, cobalt, and folk yellow.