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Downtown San Diego, California, aka America’s finest city is a redesigned beautiful community of high rise buildings, a plethora of restuaruenats, shopping venues, and quaint living environment. Downtown San Diego consists of upper middle to affluent neighborhoods, with an extravagant night life, social scene and a hotspot for tourists. However, nestled away downtown, between the areas south of Market Street and north of San Diego Bay between Petco Park and Interstate 5 are the most concentrated…

months. Even after healing from polio, she suffered long lasting effects one being her right leg grew thinner than the left. Her and her father always kept a really close relationship all throughout her life. Frida Kahlo later married a man named Diego Rivera, who she loved very much. She even painted him a few times. In most of her paintings she painted herself because it was the way for her to find her self…

The location I chose for this assignment is my home county, San Diego. San Diego is known for having the best weather in the United States, which it can attribute to its geology. San Diego is also well known for consistent droughts; however, its current unique geography is a result of ancient rivers and seas depositing Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks. As a result of these ancient rivers, “San Diego County can be divided between three distinct geomorphic regions: the Coastal Plain…

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…

con Collar de Espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird), this is one of the most commonly known paintings of the activist and artist Frida Kahlo. This painting was made in 1940 after Kahlo had split up with her husband of ten years Diego Rivera. It is a self-portrait and depicts Kahlo with a monkey and a black cat on her shoulder, a thorn necklace with a hummingbird attached to it around her neck, butterflies and flower-dragonflies surrounding her hair, and leaves surrounding…

This painting “is symbolic of the artist's pain during her divorce from [Diego] Rivera and the subsequent transitioning of her constructed identity” (Frida Kahlo Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works). The cause of this divorce was that Rivera had several affairs which made Kahlo suffer emotionally. After their divorce, Kahlo…

Frida Kahlo had a very eventful life that made her who she was, Frida Kahlo: the extraordinary artist. Kahlo did more in her short life than most people will ever do. Frida was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico, a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City where Frida grew up in a house in which her father had built that she knew as La Casa Azul, or the blue house. She was born as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, but to her and her family, she was simply Frida Kahlo. She always…

The artwork was created by Frida Kahlo a Mexican painter most famously known for her self-portraits. The piece reflects Mexican culture. The audience would most likely be those who are interested in self reflection, since the artworks are known for the in depth portrayal of Kahlo herself and aspects of her life. The mode of display is an oil on canvas, with the setting of the piece currently located in the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. However the work itself portrays "The Two Fridas"…

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…

If I could converse with any woman for an hour, it would be Frida Kahlo. I consider myself a self-reflective person. Ever since childhood, I've been very artistic. I have shelves of journals filled to the brim with inspiration, poetry, memories, and reflections. I first discovered her when I attended art classes at the Guggenheim Museum, as a budding artist, her paintings inspired me to be bold with feelings. Her self-portraits are my favorite pieces of art to analyze. They are so bold and pure…