All participated in painting the natural surroundings and local people.

When he painted poor people for the love of art, the people came out looking real.

"Not sad men who paint pictures or people having their ears shot off."

But he was painting other people at the same time.

From this influence, Rivera painted common people living and working in their environment.

He often painted aged men or people at work.

You want to know why he painted people so alienated from one another.

She's no longer miffed about why I don't paint people with faces.

"I used to paint black people in their struggle for existence," Lewis recalled years later.

Rarely did he paint people, one of the few exceptions being his own self portrait.