Diego Rivera

Tina Modotti was an italian photographer. She did modeling and acting. She was important figure in revolutionary politics. She was born august 17, 1896 in udine, italy. She died on january 5, 1942 in mexico city, mexico. She immigrated to the United States when she was 16. She acted in plays and silent movies. In 1920 she met a photographer named Edward Weston. This caused her to be interested in photography. Edward mentored her and guided her through photography. By 1923 they moved to mexico…

1.7 m) 9. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist married to Diego Rivera in 1929. While her art has been described as surreal, a title which helped her to get her artwork shown in New York in 1939, Kahlo rejected the surrealist title. She is well known for her self-portraits, as she often made her paintings autobiographical (such as Kahlo’s Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace, 1940. Oil on canvas, 61 x 47.6 cm, which she painting while she and Rivera were separated to show her…

Mexico’s culture is a fusion of Indigenous, Mestizo, and Spanish traditions. The modern day Mexico culture is a mixture of many different races. The Spanish is seen through Catholicism, and the Aztecs are seen through, The Day of the Dead, and art. Diego Rivera is a Mexican artist who painted a picture of The Day of the Dead. Aztec art shows religion and the make-up of the Mexican culture. The Mexican culture is built up on Aztec, Spanish, and Indigenous beliefs. Another point worth noting is in…

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…

Mexico is located between the United States and Central America. It’s known for its Pacific and Gulf of Mexico beaches. One popular beach is the Orange Beach, when you think about this beach they said think about Myrtle Beach. It’s also known for its diverse landscape of Mountains, Jungles, and deserts. You would think Mexico wouldn’t have any jungles, just all deserts. Mexico has many cities, but the capital is Mexico City. The population is more than 8 million people that was as of 2010. Some…

interested in working with, which are high school students. The first person I interviewed was a ninth-grade counselor at Alain Leroy Locke College Prepartory Academy. The second person I interviewed was a College Adviser, placed through USC, at Diego Rivera Learning Complex. While the first interview was conducted on site at Locke, the second interview was conducted on campus at USC. For both interviews, I came equipped with my questions already printed out and ready for me to write down what I…

Johana Castro Mr. Almo English 8, Period 8 25 April 2018 Natural Disasters: Hurricane Maria Natural Disasters: Hurricane Maria Introduction Motivator: In September 2017- October 2017 a massive hurricane called Maria hits the coasts of Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria is known for one of the top ten worst hurricane that has been record worldwide. It was the strongest storm that has hit Puerto Rico in 80 years. Hurricane Maria was on category five and left more than $40 billion in damage. Some…

I took a creative writing course at the university of South Florida. The only reason I contemplated staying was a sexy Co-Ed I shared the textbook with. I thought to myself what could they teach me about writing. I became disinterested and decided to see what my fraternity brothers were doing instead in the land of Disney and three o’clock thunderstorm. Fast-forward ten years in the future. I decided to buckle down and become a writer – officially. I had been writing screenplays unsuccessfully…

Albert M. Bender was an Irish man who moved to America where he settled and lived the rest of his years, especially in San Francisco, California. He was a writer and key to art in the 1920s and 1930s especially Ansel Adams and Diego Rivera, as he was the first person to buy Diego Rivera’s work. Albert M. Bender and Ansel Adams had a budding relationship for the first time that they met as he pushes for the “preparation and publication of Ansel Adams’ first portfolio” which was called the…

after a terrible car accident she was in. She was bedridden again for months and during that time, she began to use art as a way to express her pain. She attended the National Preparatory School in 1922 where she met her husband future husband, Diego Rivera. Struggling with their constant infidelity, Kahlo…