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Travelers' Club The ninth meeting of the 101st year of the Travelers' Club was held March 4 at the home of Nancy Newton. The group's study of Mexico continued with a paper by Nancy Calabrez about the Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Mexican muralism was an outgrowth of the Mexican Revolution, and actually a protest against the Bourgeois European ways. Diego Rivera was probably the most well-known of all the Mexican muralists in the 20th century. He was born in Mexico in 1886, and studied art in Spain and France. He returned to Mexico in 1921, and began to experiment with fresco painting on large walls. Rivera soon developed his own style of large, simplified figures and bold colors. He also became interested in left-wing politics, and many of his murals deal symbolically with Mexican society and thought after the country's 1910 revolution. He married Frida Kahlo, an artist, in 1929, and her paintings are famous in Mexico. Rivera was 70 years old when he died in 1956.
Mary Valentine reported on Teotihuacan, which was the largest city in the Americas in the first century. At its greatest extent, it included much of central Mexico, and its influence spread throughout Mesoamerica. The city was located about 25 miles northeast of Mexico City, and at its zenith, wielded power and influence comparable to ancient Rome. The city covered over 11 square miles and had a population of over 150,000 people.
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