Conversations with Diego Rivera. Alfredo Cardona Peña

just as he hated the negative aspects of life. I saw him get rid of a man who suggested he soften his political notions with the worst insults, and days later have tears in his eyes before a sick boy.

      Children are always there in his work, you can see them everywhere, constituting a leitmotiv in the paintings, even in those whose subject matter doesn’t call for the presence of a delicate being, as in the murals. “We have found,” wrote Xavier Villaurrutia, “in this painter of colossal figures, the ingeniousness and tenderness of infancy.” That same author went on to compare Rivera with a modern St. Christopher protecting the tender figure of a child.