Frida Kahlo

LONG ASS DAY The ride to Austin seemed to last a lifetime. I was sprawled in the backseat sleeping the hours away until we finally arrived into the hot city. My mom, sister and I unsure of what to do, decided to just park the car and walk around. I suggested going to a botanical garden even though the heat was almost unbearable and we were all pretty tired. The first thing we did was go to the gift shop to get a map to explore the garden. A map in my hand I went through a trail that led to a…

Last year, when I moved to Virginia, it was like a kick into reality. I was forced to move away from friends that were like family, and get use to another place that I would soon have to call home. Usually I would have been quick to try and make new friends, but it was different this time around. Instead I spent a lot of time being quiet and alone, which eventually lead to me getting to know myself. From being alone, I learned to love my own company. I start doing things like reading books and…

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…

Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter, and he was largely based on the historical roots of Mexico. He had many great contributions to American societies during the beginning half of the twentieth century. Rivera’s main goal was for his art to revolutionize the world. Rivera was always a very radical person, and it reflected in his art; at the peak of Rivera’s art career he was caught in the middle of a revolution of politics and technology, which made his views in support of communism and…

have adopted(as I tried to feel in Canada as well). I need to put my roots down, to vote and make a difference that I can”(72). Bharati's new culture new American culture gives her a reason to be a part of her community and make a difference. In Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera, Herrera expresses how Frida’s artwork gives different perspectives through her portraits. “Most of the two hundred paintings she produced in her abbreviated career were self-portraits. ...She dressed in flamboyant clothes,…

expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.’ (Example of Rothko’s artwork: Untitled (Rothko Number 5086.49), 1949. Oil on canvas. 2.1 x 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…

The traditional view of art has changed over time just as most things have. Naturally, the act of perception has differed opinions on what society considers as art. Dance, paintings, photography, drawings, music, literature, and sculpting, are what comes to mind when contemplating the aspects of art. The limitation to defining a word so opinionated leaves out room for self-expression. The traditional ideas of what is considered art should be broadened; granted, although not tangible, art can be…

The house on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is really a coming of age novel of a Mexican American female developing in a working class Chicago neighborhood. The writer is similar to the main character Esperanza in a number of ways. One being that Cisneros was also a Mexican American female growing up in a Chicago working class community. While Esperanza is ashamed of becoming a Mexican American around white Americans, Cisneros is proud to be considered a Mexican American female. But she…

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…

Diego Rivera was well-known for paintings that portrayed Mexican life, society and the history of Mexican People. No matter what, Rivera did not shift his art and that shaped him to be somewhat controversial artist. Rivera was a communist who fought for communist ideal. He is an ideal of socially dedicated artist. His art describes such issues as Mexican labor, and American worker and Revolutionary figures. Rivera experienced the work of great masters such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and…