Noted art critic Tibol reviews the bold and independent imagination of painter Rivera and how he revolutionized Mexican art during the 20th century, analyzing the role of the artist in the formation of the most important national art movement, along the political and social aspects that left a deep impressions in his life: The influence of his father, his years in Europe, his contact with the monumental painting of Italy, the Mexican Revolution, the ideas and mural projects of Jose? Vasconcelos, his political militancy, the Russian Revolution, and his relationship with painter Frida Kahlo.