[NYTr] Mexico Honors Painter Diego Rivera
 
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:09:55 -0500 (CDT)

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Mexico Honors Painter Diego Rivera

Mexico, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) With the opening of the "Epopeya Mural"
display, Mexico began a homage to famous muralist Diego Rivera on
Thursday, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of his death on
November 24.

The most complete exhibit of Rivera's murals, over 180 works, occupy
the eight halls of Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Compared equally in his time with Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, the
Guanajuato-born painter was the inventor of the transportable mural,
and some have them have been brought from afar.

Among them are "Glorious Victory" (1954) and "Sunflowers" (1942).

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