Guillermo Kahlo

Frida was a considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists. She was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. Her father was a German descendent and photographer. At the age of six she was stricken with polio, which caused her to limp after recovery. Frida attended the renowned National Preparatory School in Mexico where she met a famous muralist named Diego Rivera. She was one of the few female students to attend the school. On September 17, 1925, Frida and her boyfriend Gómez Arias were riding…

For this semester’s Independent Study Project I decided to listen to the album Basta by Quilapayún. Quilapayún are a part of the Nueva Canción Chilena genre. The Quilapayún are considered a folk music group. They are from Chile. The album Basta consists of 12 songs. Those of which include A la mina no voy, La muralla, La gaviota, Bella ciao, Coplas de baguala, Cueca de Balmaceda, Por montañas y praderas, La carta, Carabina 30-30, Porqué los pobres no tienen, Patrón, and Basta ya. Before I…

“Frida Kahlo began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident” (Kahlo, paragraph 1). This shows that after the accident, Frida Kahlo 's career as a painter had begun. Meaning a part of her innocence of the perfect pictured world was lost, realizing that there is only harsh reality, cold as ice. And for the fact that Kahlo only paints her own reality and not dreams, nor nightmare strictly shows how in tune and wide eyed she is with the real world. A great example that Kahlo painted…

graduated high school. She then attended the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, or as it is more commonly known: The National Autonomous University of Mexico. Another interesting fact I learned about her family, is that her cousin was Frida Kahlo, whom she would “often…

One of the most influential, and recognized artist of the 20th century is Frida Kahlo. She displays her identity as a woman artist, a Mexican artist, and a politically involved artist in 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…

mostly on herself. Other times it 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…

Her pain became the beacon of beauty. Born in 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico, three years before the Mexican Revolutionary War broke out. Frida Kahlo grew up with parents that always encouraged her to be artistic. At the age of six, Frida contracted polio, making one leg drastically smaller than the other. This disease remarkably changed her life and influenced her art in many ways. The tragedies in her life became center stage on her paintings. She took her pain and made it into fascinating art. In…

The female Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, famous for her self-portraits and her own personal experiences occurring during the period of her life where she was having an identity crisis “along with the rest of the post-revolutionary Mexico” (Frida Kahlo - Identity/Duality, Gillingham, Amie). A lot of her identity crisis revolved around both her separation from her homeland and the struggles and problems that it was facing. Her father being a German Jew and her mother being of an ingenious…

Joni Mitchell has been an influential force in the music industry for more than five decades. Releasing 19 albums since the beginning of her career in the 1960s, the Canadian songstress has had countless chart hits. Her songs, including “Big Yellow Taxi,” “River” and “Both Sides Now,” have been covered hundreds of times over by generations of artists, guaranteeing that her music will live on forever. Read on to learn more about Joni Mitchell’s prolific music and painting career, and stay tuned…

Frida Kahlo, born July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico, defines herself as a woman and an artist by pursuing her passions and making her career a priority in a time when women were supposed to be submissive to men and focus solely on pleasing their husbands. Though Frida loved her husband Diego Rivera very much, she had the courage to branch out from what was considered normal at the time, and focus on herself and what she wanted out of her short life. She quickly rose to fame with her paintings…