Diego de Landa

Introduction I chose Jenni Rivera because she had a pretty hard life. Her life was sad and very interesting. She accomplished a lot in her life and she was a brave person even at the hardest times in her life. Jenni was a successful person and she was very talented, she was a singer and a business woman she sold over 15 million copies of her 12 albums. She was inspiring to many people because she was very helpful Jenni had a foundation for women that were victims of violence. Early Life…

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato Mexico and grew up there until his family moved to Mexico City in 1893. Accepted into the San Carlos Academy at the age of ten, Rivera began his education and his career during a troubled time not only for Mexico but also within the world stage. Socialism and Marxism were on the rise and at the time his native Mexico was struggling to re-establish its own identity before Spanish influence. Diego Rivera’s art would contribute to the voice of the oppressed…

Nobody’s life is perfect. While Frida Kahlo confronted herself with many challenges, she decided not to give up. In fact, Frida Kahlo overcame her challenges by being expressive and brave. Frida Kahlo was a very talented artist who used painting as a way to express herself and her sorrow situations. According to Biography.com, Kahlo desperately wanted a child of her own. Unfortunately, in 1934, she experienced her second miscarriage. Imagine the heartbreak of wanting a child, but not being…

La Vida de Una Mujer Distinta Llamada Frida Kahlo “Me pinto a mí misma, porque soy a quien mejor conozco”. “I paint myself because I know who I am best”. Her complete birth name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón. Her artistic name is Frida Kahlo and she is well known to also be a feminist icon who is admired. Frida lived to be 47 years old. Her father was a Jew of Hungarian-German descent and her mother was a native born Mexican of Spanish/Indian descent. Religious Beliefs Kahlo’s…

Exposure to Reality As Jennifer Elisabeth said in her book Born Ready, “I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self…that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.”In other words, society has corrupted our way of living in our culture. Our own personal culture that we are familiar with and a part of can shape how we view ourselves very deeply. It gives us a defining sense of self and can dictate what our values become.…

most of her art pieces. One constant theme, in Frida’s artworks is the theme of pain. Throughout her life, she was in constant pain, whether it be from after effects of the accident she had as a young adult, or emotional pain caused by her husband, Diego Rivera. The constant pain that she felt was evident in many of her works. Many of which she created after experiencing a painful event or while recovering from one. Pain and anguish, through her artworks, have become parallel to Frida…

The self-portray Along the Broader Line Between Mexico and the Unites States,1932 that show the sun and moon represents Mexico and the Unites States’ s boundary. As the picture described she wanted the agriculture culture of Mexico by the way she dresses up with a pink dress and she also holds a small flag in her hand which shows us how her loyalties that she wanted to be. She also stands on the boundary of Mexico and United States lines. This painting is clearly explained the using of different…

would be a work depicting someone close like her sister, lover, Mexican traditions, or Diego Rivera. For example, in one of her early works it was a portrait of her first love named Alejandro Comez Arias in 1928 (Frida Kahlo The Complete Works"). However, after the bus incident, he had to move on and so did Frida when she was bedridden. Throughout her life, she dealt with Mexican revolution, her husband Diego, her medical conditions…

The two murals I chose were both painted by Diego Rivera around the same time period between 1923 and 1947 with the first, “Liberation of the Peon being painted in 1923 and the second “dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park” being painted from 1946-47. “Emiliano Zapata’s aim was to bring about agrarian reform and freedom to the poor and working class citizens. But how successful/how lasting was the influence of Zapata and/or agrarian reform on both the Mexican Revolution and present day…

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…