Diego López

López signing autographs in the 2011 preseason
Personal information
Full name	Diego López Rodríguez
Date of birth	(1981-11-03) 3 November 1981 (age 30)
Place of birth	Paradela, Spain
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Sevilla
Number	TBA
Youth career
1994–1999	Lugo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1999–2000	Lugo	0	(0)
2000–2003	Real Madrid C	57	(0)
2001–2002	→ Alcorcón (loan)	0	(0)
2003–2005	Real Madrid B	33	(0)
2005–2007	Real Madrid	2	(0)
2007–2012	Villarreal	171	(0)
2012–	Sevilla	0	(0)
National team‡
2009–	Spain	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 May 2012. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 January 2010

Diego López Rodríguez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo ˈlopeθ]; born 3 November 1981) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Sevilla FC as a goalkeeper.

Club career[link]

Real Madrid[link]

López was born in Paradela, Lugo, Galicia. A youth graduate from hometown's CD Lugo, he moved to Real Madrid at almost 19 and, after a loan at another side from the capital, AD Alcorcón, he eventually moved up to Real's B team, starting in his second season, which ended in Segunda División promotion.

López served as first-team backup to Iker Casillas in the following two La Liga seasons. In the closing stages of 2005–06, he appeared in two back-to-back away wins, against CA Osasuna (as Casillas was sent off)^[1] and Racing de Santander,^[2] adding a UEFA Champions League group stage game at Olympiakos FC, a 1–2 defeat.^[3]

Villarreal[link]

In late June 2007, López signed for Villarreal CF for a reported fee of €6 million,^[4] and started the season as second-choice to Uruguayan Sebastián Viera but, after a string of fine performances (he played in the domestic and UEFA Cups), he was awarded first-team action, finishing the season with 20 appearances.

In 2008–09, López was everpresent, helping Villarreal finish fifth in the league, as he did not miss one minute of action. More of the same in the following season, but the team could only rank seventh, thus out of the European zone; however, as fifth-placed RCD Mallorca was expelled from European competition due to bankruptcy, the Valencian took its place in the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Europa League.

López featured in all but one league games in 2011–12, being ejected against Sevilla FC in a 2–2 home draw, in the second game of the season.^[5] The Yellow Submarine would eventually be relegated after a twelve-year stay, with the player conceding 50 goals in his appearances.

Sevilla[link]

On 22 May 2012, López signed with Sevilla for five years, for a reported fee of €3,5 million.^[6]

International career[link]

López was first called-up by Spain, as the third goalkeeper, for two 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers – both against Turkey, in late March/early April 2009. He was named by national side boss Vicente del Bosque for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, in the same predicament (behind Casillas and Pepe Reina), and did not play any matches there.

On 12 August 2009, in a 3–2 friendly win in Macedonia, López made his national team debut, playing the last 30 minutes in the place of Reina, and keeping a clean sheet.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Villarreal official profile
• BDFutbol profile
• National team data (Spanish)
• Transfermarkt profile

v t e Spain squad – 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Third Place 1 Casillas (c) 2 Albiol 3 Piqué 4 Marchena 5 Puyol 6 Pablo 7 Villa 8 Xavi 9 F. Torres 10 Fàbregas 11 Capdevila 12 Busquets 13 López 14 Alonso 15 Ramos 16 Llorente 17 Güiza 18 Riera 19 Arbeloa 20 Cazorla 21 Silva 22 Mata 23 Reina Coach: Del Bosque

Diego López may refer to:

• Diego López (painter) (1465-1530), Spanish Renaissance painter
• Diego López Garrido, Spanish politician
• Diego López Rodríguez, Spanish football goalkeeper
• Luis Diego López, Uruguayan football defender
• Several medieval Lords of Biscay in northern Spain:
  • Diego López I de Haro
  • Diego López II de Haro
  • Diego López III de Haro
  • Diego López IV de Haro
  • Diego López V de Haro

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Arturo López
New York Mets – No. 32
pitcher
Born: (1983-02-22) February 22, 1983 (age 29) Culiacán, Mexico
Bats: Left	Throws: Left
MLB debut
April 29, 2009 for the San Diego Padres
Career statistics (through 2009 season)
Win-Loss	0-0
Earned run average	19.29
Strikeouts	0
Teams
San Diego Padres (2009)

Javier Arturo López (born February 22, 1983, in Culiacán, Mexico) is a Mexican-American professional baseball pitcher. He is currently in the New York Mets organization.

López made his minor league debut in 2001 in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. From 2001 to 2008 in the minors, Lopez had a 38–39 record with a 5.15 ERA.

López made his Major League debut on April 29, 2009 against the Colorado Rockies.

The New York Mets designated López for assignment on February 22, 2010, but he cleared waivers and returned to the Mets camp as a non-roster invitee.

External links[link]

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)

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Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in 1932, Photo by: Carl Van Vechten
Birth name	Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez
Born	(1886-12-08)December 8, 1886 Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Died	November 24, 1957(1957-11-24) (aged 70) Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican
Field	Painting, Muralist
Training	San Carlos Academy
Movement	Mexican Mural Movement
Influenced	Glenn Gant

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) better known simply as Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929–1939 and 1940–1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City.^[1] In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Early life[link]

Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Diego Rivera, 1914

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, to a well-to-do family. Rivera was descended from Spanish nobility on his father's side. Diego had a twin brother named Carlos, who died two years after they were born.^[2] From the age of ten, Rivera studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He was sponsored to continue study in Europe by Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, the governor of the State of Veracruz. His mother was a Converso, a Jew whose ancestors had been forced to convert to Catholicism.^[3] Speaking about himself, Rivera wrote in 1935 "My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life.^[4]

After arrival in Europe in 1907, Rivera initially went to study with Eduardo Chicharro in Madrid, Spain, and from there went to Paris, France, to live and work with the great gathering of artists in Montparnasse, especially at La Ruche, where his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait in 1914.^[5] His circle of close friends, which included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska (Marevna) in her painting "Homage to Friends from Montparnasse" (1962).^[6]

In those years, Paris was witnessing the beginning of cubism in paintings by such eminent painters as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. From 1913 to 1917, Rivera enthusiastically embraced this new school of art. Around 1917, inspired by Paul Cézanne's paintings, Rivera shifted toward Post-Impressionism with simple forms and large patches of vivid colors. His paintings began to attract attention, and he was able to display them at several exhibitions.

Career in Mexico[link]

Diego Rivera's mural depicting Mexico's history at the National Palace in Mexico City.

In 1920, urged by Alberto J. Pani, the Mexican ambassador to France, Rivera left France and traveled through Italy studying its art, including Renaissance frescoes. After José Vasconcelos became Minister of Education, Rivera returned to Mexico in 1921 to become involved in the government sponsored Mexican mural program planned by Vasconcelos.^[7] See also Mexican muralism. The program included such Mexican artists as José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo, and the French artist Jean Charlot. In January 1922,^[8] he painted – experimentally in encaustic – his first significant mural Creation^[9] in the Bolívar Auditorium of the National Preparatory School in Mexico City while guarding himself with a pistol against right-wing students.

In the autumn of 1922, Rivera participated in the founding of the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors, and later that year he joined the Mexican Communist Party^[10] (including its Central Committee). His murals, subsequently painted in fresco only, dealt with Mexican society and reflected the country's 1910 Revolution. Rivera developed his own native style based on large, simplified figures and bold colors with an Aztec influence clearly present in murals at the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City^[11] begun in September 1922, intended to consist of one hundred and twenty-four frescoes, and finished in 1928.^[8]

His art, in a fashion similar to the steles of the Maya, tells stories. The mural "En el Arsenal" (In the Arsenal)^[12] shows on the right-hand side Tina Modotti holding an ammunition belt and facing Julio Antonio Mella, in a light hat, and Vittorio Vidali behind in a black hat. However, the En el Arsenal detail shown does not include the right-hand side described nor any of the three individuals mentioned. Rivera's radical political beliefs, attacks on the church and clergy made him a controversial figure even in communist circles. Leon Trotsky lived with Rivera and Kahlo for several months while exiled in Mexico.^[13] Some of Rivera's most famous murals are featured at the National School of Agriculture at Chapingo near Texcoco (1925–27), in the Cortés Palace in Cuernavaca (1929–30), and the National Palace in Mexico City (1929–30, 1935).^[14][15]

Later work abroad[link]

Portrait of Diego Rivera, 19 March 1932. Photo by Carl Van Vechten

In the autumn of 1927, Rivera arrived in Moscow, accepting an invitation to take part in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. The following year, while still in Russia, he met the visiting Alfred H. Barr, Jr., who would soon become Rivera's friend and patron, as well as the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art.^[16] Rivera was commissioned to paint a mural for the Red Army Club in Moscow, but in 1928 he was ordered out by the authorities because of involvement in anti-Soviet politics, and he returned to Mexico. In 1929, Rivera was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party. His 1928 mural In the Arsenal was interpreted by some as evidence of Rivera's prior knowledge of the murder of Julio Antonio Mella allegedly by Stalinist assassin Vittorio Vidali. After divorcing Guadalupe (Lupe) Marin, Rivera married Frida Kahlo in August 1929. Also in 1929, the first English-language book on Rivera, American journalist Ernestine Evans's The Frescoes of Diego Rivera, was published in New York. In December, Rivera accepted a commission to paint murals in the Palace of Cortez in Cuernavaca from the American Ambassador to Mexico.^[17]

In September 1930, Rivera accepted an invitation from architect Timothy L. Pflueger to paint for him in San Francisco. After arriving in November accompanied by Kahlo, Rivera painted a mural for the City Club of the San Francisco Stock Exchange for US$2,500^[18] and a fresco for the California School of Fine Art, later relocated to what is now the Diego Rivera Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute.^[17] Kahlo and Rivera worked and lived at the studio of Ralph Stackpole, who had suggested Rivera to Pflueger. Rivera met Helen Wills Moody, a famous tennis player, who modeled for his City Club mural.^[18] In November 1931, Rivera had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Kahlo was present at the opening of the New York MoMA show.^[19] Between 1932 and 1933, he completed a famous series of twenty-seven fresco panels entitled Detroit Industry on the walls of an inner court at the Detroit Institute of Arts. During the McCarthyism of the 1950s, a large sign was placed in the courtyard defending the artistic merit of the murals while attacking his politics as "detestable."^[16]

Man, Controller of the Universe

His mural Man at the Crossroads, begun in 1933 for the Rockefeller Center in New York City, was removed after a furor erupted in the press over a portrait of Vladimir Lenin it contained. The American poet Archibald MacLeish wrote six "irony-laden" poems about the mural.^[20] The New Yorker magazine published E. B. White's poem "I paint what I see: A ballad of artistic integrity".^[21] As a result of the negative publicity, a further commission was canceled to paint a mural for an exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. Rivera issued a statement that with the money left over from the commission of the mural at Rockefeller Center (he was paid in full though the mural was supposedly destroyed. Rumors have floated that the mural was actually covered over rather than brought down and destroyed.), he would repaint the same mural over and over wherever he was asked until the money ran out.

In December 1933, Rivera returned to Mexico, and he repainted Man at the Crossroads in 1934 in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. This surviving version was called Man, Controller of the Universe. On June 5, 1940, invited again by Pflueger, Rivera returned for the last time to the United States to paint a ten-panel mural for the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Pan American Unity was completed November 29, 1940. As he was painting, Rivera was on display in front of Exposition attendees. He received US$1,000 per month and US$1,000 for travel expenses.^[18] The mural includes representations of two of Pflueger's architectural works as well as portraits of Kahlo, woodcarver Dudley C. Carter, and actress Paulette Goddard, who is depicted holding Rivera's hand as they plant a white tree together.^[18] Rivera's assistants on the mural included the pioneer African-American artist, dancer, and textile designer Thelma Johnson Streat. The mural and its archives reside at City College of San Francisco.^[22]

Work in museum collections[link]

At Plaza San Jacinto, Mexico City

Personal life[link]

House of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo (built by Juan O'Gorman in 1930)

Rivera began drawing when he was only three, just a year after his twin brother's death. He had been caught drawing on the walls. His parents, rather than punishing him, installed chalkboards and canvas on the walls for the young painter to make use of.

In Guanajuato, near his boyhood home

As an adult, Rivera was a notorious womanizer who had fathered at least one illegitimate child. He married Angelina Beloff in 1911, and she gave birth to a son, Diego (1916–1918). Maria Vorobieff-Stebelska gave birth to a daughter named Marika in 1918 or 1919 when Rivera was married to Angelina (according to House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera and Angelina's memoirs called Memorias). He married his second wife, Guadalupe Marín, in June 1922, with whom he had two daughters: Ruth and Guadalupe. He was still married when he met art student Frida Kahlo. They married on August 21, 1929 when he was 42 and she was 22. Their mutual infidelities and his violent temper led to divorce in 1939, but they remarried December 8, 1940 in San Francisco. Rivera later married Emma Hurtado, his agent since 1946, on July 29, 1955, one year after Kahlo's death. He died on November 24, 1957.^[23]

Rivera was an atheist. His mural Dreams of a Sunday in the Alameda depicted Ignacio Ramírez holding a sign which read, "God does not exist". This work caused a furor, but Rivera refused to remove the inscription. The painting was not shown for 9 years – until Rivera agreed to remove the inscription. He stated: "To affirm 'God does not exist', I do not have to hide behind Don Ignacio Ramírez; I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis."^[24]

Cinematic portrayals[link]

Diego Rivera was portrayed by Rubén Blades in 1999's Cradle Will Rock, and by Alfred Molina in 2002's Frida.

Literary portrayals[link]

Diego, Frida, and Leon Trotsky are principal characters in Barbara Kingsolver's novel, The Lacuna.

Gallery[link]

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See also[link]

	Mexico portal
	Biography portal
	Visual arts portal

• Anahuacalli Museum
• Gabriel Bracho, Venezuelan muralist
• Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal
• María Izquierdo

References[link]

The Tomb of Diego Rivera in The Rotunda of Illustrious Persons inside the Panteón de Dolores

External links[link]

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