Beautiful. Bold. Colorful. Real. These are just a few of many words that can be used to describe one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Frida Kahlo.…
In the image of a mural painted by frank romero “Going to the Olympics, 1984” shows a beautiful painting done on the side of a Hollywood freeway. It was dedicated to the Olympics, it has 5 old model type cars with valentine hearts over each car, there are palm trees in the background as well he uses light pastel colors to give off the light cheery mood. On top in the sky of the mural are symbols as well; there is an iron, two men wrestling, a Good Year blimp, a stallion, and a mailing stamp. I believe in that time period Romero might have felt that he city’s car culture was beautiful because there might have not been that much traffic, you can tell he feels that way from the valentine hearts over each car. You can also take in the fact…
Juan Ruis Rivera was born on August 26, 1848 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico. He participated in the Grito of Lares, which was a revolt that was held against Spain in Puerto Rico. He also went to New York and went to a Cuban Revolutionary “junta” and he offered to help them out. He then went to Cuba with la junta and fought in the Ten Year’s war against Spain. After the war ended with the treaty of Zanjon, Ruis wasn’t really happy with that treaty so he moved to Hondras and got married to Aurora Estrada Palma.…
The Segundo Barrio Murals are located in South El Paso and the area has always been a poverty stricken area. The name Segundo Barrio came from the Mexicans who actually live their which translate to the Second Ward. Through out history people have always been drawing on walls anyway that they could and the muralists in El Paso are no exception. The Mexican mural tradition started back in 1921 with artists such as Diego Rivera who through his art portrayed his heritage, culture and the everyday life of the Mexican people. Through his art the Mexican Mural movement was established and it paved the way for many Mexican Artists to create meaningful pieces of art on buildings and walls.…
Leonora Carrington was born in Lancashire, England on April 6, 1917 into a wealthy and Catholic family. In her childhood, Carrington lived in England and Florence. She was an English-born Mexican artist. Maureen Moorhead Carrington and Harold Carrington, Leonora Carrington's parents, had 4 children: Patrick, Gerald, Arthur, and Leonora.…
David Alfaro Siqueiros was considered one of the three great muralists that led the Mexican Mural Movement in America through exceedingly political and symbolic murals. His mural, Portrait of Mexico Today (1932), is not just a piece of decorative art that once stood in the home of Dudley Murphy, but it is now acknowledged in a public setting as a descriptive narrative of Mexico. Siqueiros’s mural, Portrait of Mexico Today (1932), stands at 170 square feet with a political message and narrative that moves along the mural from left to right. On the narrow wall on the far left, Siqueiros placed a gold framed portrait of J.P Morgan, the leading American financer of the U.S. government during the 1900s.…
Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as "La Casa Azul," the Blue Hous Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. Her work has also been described as surrealist, Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in her parents' house known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán. At the time, Coyoacán was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter.…
A mural that caught my attention would be a mural that could be found in the campus of East Los Angeles College. The mural is located in ELAC's Foyer Auditorium by the artist's Raúl Anguiano called “A Biography of Mexican Painting. " The mural is described to be around 70-foot-square long mural and according to East Los Angeles College president, Marvin Martinez " Anguiano captures the evolution of Mexican Art from the golden period of the Mayan culture to the 20th century" (Martinez). The mural illustrates pre- Hispanic images and sculptures such as Christianity and a priest and other iconic figures.…
Edward Hopper is most commonly known for his realistic oil paintings and printmaking. He began to make his art by going through the process that most artists creating oil paintings do. Edward first studied the subject he was going to draw, usually something you see in daily life. After sketching he began painting on the canvas. Using a variety of different techniques, he concluded his work when he was satisfied.…
Besides being very well known for her work, she was also known for her relationship with fellow communist artist Diego Rivera – whom she married in 1929, divorced 10 years later, and remarried…
Throughout history there have been hundreds of people who have fought for all kinds of human rights. Some of them took action by appealing to violence, others did it by just communicating a specific concern through literature, music or art. Diego Rivera, for example, was one of Mexico’s greatest social realistic muralists and is currently considered as one of Los Tres Grandes among Mexico’s mural painters (Aldama). Although his paintings had a great success in Mexico, he also had an impact in United States. In 1933, Diego Rivera painted a mural in the Rockefeller Center known as ‘’Man at the crossroads’’ but because of some controversial figures that he added it was destroyed.…
You may have seen her paintings, recognize her because of her unique eyebrows, Frida Kahlo was a Mexican self portrait artist and still admired as a feminist icon. Frida was born in Mexico City on 1907, she began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident and later became politically active and married Diego Rivera. Frida grew up where she was born, La Casa Azul, in Coyoacan. Her father was a german photographer, she also had two older sisters and her younger sister was born the year after Frida. At around the age of 6 she contracted polio, which took her nine months to recover.…
The Mexican Revolution brought about a cultural reawakening that heartened artists to look inward in search of a specific Mexican artistic portrayal beginning in 1910. This visual representation, designed to rise above the field of the arts, gave a national identity to this population experiencing a chaotic transition. Because a majority of Mexicans were faced with the harsh realities of warfare, people developed new ways for coping with their own adversity, however, with more than half of the population being illiterate, many turned to art as a form of representation in order to express their point of views. Artists such as Frida Kahlo, and muralists like Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquerios all intertwine their own…
Pablo Picasso was born on the 25 October 1881 Malaga, Spain. Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico. Pablo Picasso is the artist behind the artwork, The Weeping Woman. The weeping woman is an oil on canvas painting made in 1937. Picasso used his famous artwork,…
Artist and their Identity Artists and authors throughout the years learned many life changing experiences from their past, whether they were hurt or ecstatic. Like artist Frida Kahlo, in 1944 she painted the painting called The Broken Column. The painting was shortly made after Frida underwent her spinal surgery. Although her whole body is supported by the corset, she is conveying a message of spiritual triumph. She has tears on her face but she looks straight ahead and is challenging both herself and her audience to face her situation.…