Artful Insights: Avril Angevine’s Art Lecture Series

Diego Rivera: Art for a New World

Diego Rivera was one of the big men of 20th century art—big physically, in personality, and as an influence on American art at mid-century.

His mural style was forged in the Mexican Revolution, and in his American murals, he achieved an incongruous synthesis between a reverence for the indigenous cultures of his native land and an appreciation of American industrial modernity. Overshadowed today by his wife Frida Kahlo, Rivera was a prodigious talent whose commitment to art as a political act still resonates. He didn’t believe in God, he said, but he did believe in Picasso.

Avril Angevine is an arts lecturer with a particular interest in modern, contemporary, and California art. She speaks on many subjects at various locations in the Bay Area, including the OLLI programs at Cal State East Bay, Dominican College, San Francisco State, and the Fromm Institute. Avril has a BA in English and an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and taught English and Humanities at local colleges. She is also a museum guide at SFMOMA, the Oakland Museum, and the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

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