Arturo Rivera

Arturo Rivera (April 15, 1945) is a Mexican contemporary master painter. He was born in Mexico D.F. and studied painting in San Carlos from 1963 to 1968. In 1969 he presented his first solo exhibition in homage to Che Guevara in Molino de Santo Domingo. In 1973 he studied serigraphy and photoserigraphy in London. In 1976, he moved to New York and in 1978 began utiliizing the form of hyperrealism for which he is renowned today. In 1979 he went to Munich, Germany to study with Max Zimmerman, who he had met in New York. Image File history File links ArturoRivera. ... Image File history File links ArturoRivera. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. ... This article is about the British city. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ...

He returned to Mexico in 1981 for a show in the University of Arts and Sciences Museum. As he continued to perfect his style of hyperrealism throughout the 80's and 90's with numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout Mexico, Rivera portrayed dark, anatomic, and sometimes macabre themes. In 2000, Arturo Rivera headlined an exhibit of self-portrait paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Mexico City along side such notable mexican artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. In 2003, Arturo Rivera was honored by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, Mexico (the MARCO) as one of the Grand Masters of Mexican Art of the 20th century. In 2005, he won First Prize at the Beijing International Art Biennale with the oil painting "Arriving to New York", which is now held by the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) in the South of Mexico, about 2,240 meters (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides... Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo (photographer: Carl Van Vechten) Diego Rivera (born December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico – died November 24, 1957)), full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez) was a cubist painter... hey! Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird - 1940 Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter of the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining realism and symbolism, an active Communist supporter, and wife of the Mexican muralist and cubist painter...

Now living in Mexico D.F, he continues to show throughout Mexico, Europe, and the Americas and is held in numerous contemporary art museums and private collections throughout the world. The term contemporary art generally refers to art being done now. ...

External links

• Arturo Rivera Website
• Arturo Rivera Biography and Interviews
• Arturo Rivera Publications
• Arturo Rivera Online Gallery