Musical instruments like guitar and violin are often seen in these pictures. (Cubism, cubists: Picasso and Braque, and their great influences) At the same end of his career, from 1968 through 1971, the paintings by Picasso became a lot more colorful and created a number of paintings and copperplate engravings
It was during this period that Rivera was involved in his most intense search for his identity as an artist. Moreover, it was also during his final years in Europe that he developed his ideas about muralismo (mural art) as public art which would focus on the Mexican people (Brenner 280)
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)
He began a mural in the Rockefeller Central in New York but it was destroyed because it included a portrait of Lenin but he painted an identical mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Werner 1283). In addition to his involvement in politics and his work as a painter, Rivera was also a respected amateur archaeologist, and built a museum in Pedregal to house his collection of pre-Hispanic sculpture (Stewart 29)
He also achieved fame in the United States by taking his mural paintings to cities such as New York, Detroit and San Francisco. He began a mural in the Rockefeller Central in New York but it was destroyed because it included a portrait of Lenin but he painted an identical mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Werner 1283)