Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, but his family moved to Mexico City when he was small. They turned his house into a museum, so we went.
The first floor has furniture "typical of the time." The third and fourth floors have temporary exhibits.
The second floor was where they have early works by Rivera. It was interesting to search for his later work in these as he went through art school painting in different traditional styles. One that stood out to me was a painting he did at 20 in the impressionist style of Monet. It was from the back side of Notre Dame -- a little less elegant than those of Monet, and it featured in the foreground some small mechanical cranes and building materials. I don't know when Rivera's attention turned to Marxism and industrialism, but this seemed like a Marxist commentary on Monet. In his murals, you also see the glorification of industrialism as was popular in Marxism at the time.
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