Furthermore, a series of well-publicized controversies plagued his career. He was an avowed Communist, but was criticized by the left for accepting commissions from some of the most powerful tycoons of the modern capitalist age. Conservatives called his work either obscene or sacrilegious. Biographies offer varied accounts of events in Rivera's life, for he liked to embellish. He was married several times, and even the longest and most compatible match, to artist Frida Kahlo, was troubled at times by his infidelities. Above all, however, Rivera has been credited with giving modern Mexico its national identity. He celebrated its traditions, the spirit of its people, and tried, through his art, to portray a future in which the country's generations-long suffering at the hands of its own environment, and then a string of conquerors, would have come to an end. "In the awkward grace of his Mexican children and the simple, elegant, abstracted curve of the back of one of his burden-bearers, it is not poverty we see but the tenderness of the vision of a painter who loved his country and his people," remarked one of his biographers, Bertram D. Wolfe, in
The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera. An Educated Family
Rivera was born in December of 1886 in Guanajuato, a large city in the Guanajuato province of central Mexico.
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