Google honors famed Mexican artist Diego Rivera

Search giant Google on Thursday paid tribute to prominent Mexican painter Diego Rivera on his 125th birth anniversary with one of its patented Doodles.

 

Visitors to Google's homepage were greeted with a colorful doodle with Rivera's art style replacing the Google logo.

 

The letters spelling "Google" appeared to be hidden in the art works in the doodle.

 

As in the past, clicking on the doodle would take a visitor to a search results page for Diego Rivera.

 

The Diego-Rivera.com website said Rivera earned a heroic status as a "young firebrand who fought in the Mexican Revolution, and a visionary who completely repudiated his participation in the European avant-garde to follow a predestined course as the leader of Mexico's art revolution." 

 

Rivera was born Dec. 8, 1886 to a middle-class family, and completed an academic course of training at the prestigious Academic course of San Carlos before leaving Mexico for the traditional period of European study.

 

"Rivera's life was filled with contradictions - a pioneer of Cubism who promoted art for art's sake, he became one of the leaders of the Mexican Mural Renaissance; a Marxist/Communist, he received mural commissions from the United States corporate establishment; a champion of the worker, he had a deep fascination with the form and function of machines and pronounced engineer America's greatest artists; a great revolutionary artist, he also painted society portraits," Diego-Rivera.com said.

 

"Rivera's philosophy of art and life correspond to no specific dogma. He had an extraordinarily well developed intuitive sense that shaped his understanding of the world and his humanistic understanding of the role of the artist and the role of art in society. His ability to masterfully present universal images and ideas in his art continues to captivate the viewers today," it added.

 

Rivera died on Nov. 24, 1957. — ELR, GMA News