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...... Riveras father deeply influenced his career. Realizing that his son needed help in his profession, Rivera senior, now a school inspector helped Diego win a scholarship to study abroad. He arrived in Spain in January 1907 where he would reside for approximately fifteen years. However, from Spain he was able to travel all over Europe. He visited France, Belgium, Holland and England. Rivera was in France in 1909 where he was introduced to the work of the Fauves and Cezanne but he would later declare that the artist who had made the biggest impression on his as a young man was in fact Henri Rousseau, the only one of the moderns whose works stirred each and every fiber of my being (Lucie-Smith 201). His career as a muralist began in 1921, shortly after his return to Mexico. However, in 1910 Rivera made a trip home where he held a successful exhibition. The wife of the President of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, bought six of the forty paintings on display, and a number more were purchased by the Academy of Fine Arts. Rivera had also made many friends while living in Paris, among the Parisian avant garde, and had even shared

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