THE FLOWER CARRIER
                                                by Diego Rivera   1886-1957

1.  What do you know about the childhood of Diego Rivera?  ____________________________

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2.  Why did he leave the Academy of San Carlos?  ____________________________________

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3. What is a mural?  ___________________________________________________________

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4. Why was his mural destroyed in the city of Detroit?  __________________________________

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5.  Why did people in Mexico consider his mural at the Hotel del Prado  so scandalous they refused to
      have it shown?

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6.  Why did Rivera paint pictures of Lenin and Stalin in his murals? ________________________

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7.  What do you like about the painting  "The Flower Carrier"?____________________________

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8.  What colors do see repeated in "The Flower Carrier"? _______________________________

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