Frida

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…

The Kardashians and the Change of Beauty In 1751, British essayist David Home, wrote “Beauty is no quality in things themselves…; Each mind perceives a different beauty (Hume)”. In the last two hundred and sixty-six years, this concept of beauty has all but vanished. Today beauty comes from a social aspect, completely corrupted by money hunger companies, or the desire to be accepted. In American societies, children, teens, and young adults all have icons. Whether athletes or models, celebrities…

artwork, especially in realistic artworks is necessary to represent subject matter truthfully without any artificial touches to it. In a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo named, “Self Portrait with Necklace”, she accurately depicts her appearances. Realism allows the depiction of life forms, perspectives, and the details of colors and light. In Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait, little details were accurately represented, for example her pink cheeks, her collarbone, and…

ARIEL, DOMINIQUE H. "Queering Zionism." Jerusalem Post, Mar 11, 2016, pp. 12. eLibrary A 16 year old, Shira Banki at a Jerusalem pride parade was stabbed to death by a zionist or pro-israel man. This caused a meeting of LGBTQ Task Force and other national LGBT organizations to sit down and discuss the action that will be taken to reinforce anti-hate. As a result, complaints were made when a leader of a prominent LGBT organization in Jerusalem, Sarah Weil came out as a zionist. While the…

back”. The statue demonstrated a mother, perhaps on her way to the market carrying a child nestled against her back inside a traditional shawl. The statue was carved in 1933 by Mexican artist Mardonio Magana. This section included famous painter like Frida Kahlo, Zapata, Angel Zarraga and Roberto Montenegro. During my visitation this room/ gallery display was the most fullest of all. As I walk around each piece of art I realized this exhibition was one of the most popular…

The museum in Atlanta is a much known museum it’s known for its art inside it and for how big it is also how long it is standing. I couldn’t visit a museum but I am sure going to talk to you about this fantastic museum I searched up on. This museum is amazing by just looking at it you’re going to want to read more about it and find many things about it also this museum is the most biggest in the whole world. What I am going to talk to you is about the history there is in this museum and the art…

Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, and women’s rights activist once said, “nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles”. In other words, humans are naturally meant to be diverse and individual, but we’ve grown terrified of being ourselves no matter how different, because of society. Leonard Mead from the short story, “The Pedestrian” had made a wise…

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…