Diego Rivera: Self-Portraits (2)


Source: WTL research files and photographs.
Comments: Self-portrait (1918). During this year Rivera moved away from the influence of French Cubism, which he had learned in Paris from Picasso and Bracque. Instead, he looked at classical Italian art, especially the works of Giotto and the painters of the Early Italian Renaissance.
Question: How does this pen and ink portrait illustrate such a change in artistic direction for Rivera?