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Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist born in 1907 is best known and remembered for her self-portraits that were brilliantly vibrant coloured and bold, along with her passion and pain. Kahlo started painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident, as she was slowly recovering in a body cast. During this time, she taught herself to read and paint often, while studying the art of the Old Masters. Common themes that were in Kahlo’s approx. 200 paintings, sketches and…

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…

twentieth century the world saw revolutions in both Mexico and Russia take place. While both of these countries hoped their revolutions would end in a government which supported their countries on working class, the method of revolution and their final government outcomes differed greatly in Mexico and also in Russia, as well as there were key factors that took place during both Revolution time periods that had similar comparisons. For Mexico masses of peasants and urban workers were an active…

he excerpt from Hutton’s article discussed one of the leading figures in the Mexican Revolution, known as Emiliano Zapata, who stood up for the peasants and would not be corrupted. After his death, many artists depicted his legacy through their murals; one of the murals was named, “Zapata Entering a Peasant’s Hut.” The mural illustrates Zapata going into the hut with blue sky behind him, out-raised arms of peasants, and peasants standing up. This mural can be interpreted in many different ways…

Zachary Calderon CHST 101 7 July 2017 Professor Carrasco Critical Essay 1 When discussing the Azteca, it is important to note their assemblage of one of the greatest engineered civilizations, which led to a daunting and wholesome empire in just a short two hundred years. The Azteca are to thank for many of the world’s inventions that include grand temples, palaces, and more specifically, the aqueduct. However, upon the arrival of the Spanish invaders, the Azteca were unable to fathom…

Restall, author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest writes about the crucial alliance Cortés makes with the Tlaxcalan people. "As these Tlaxcalans rightly judged, with Spanish assistance, they would be able to destroy the Mexica Empire and its capital city." (Restall, 47) Prefacing the alliance, Cortés had arrived in Veracruz where he was met with Mexica diplomatic envoys that begged him not to continue further inland. The unwelcome-welcoming that Cortés received inspired him to look for…

A popular Mexican Holiday is Los Dias de los Muertos. It is a holiday that shares some origins with the likes of Halloween but at the same time is radically different. Halloween focuses on accepting death for a day and shifting the norm upside down. However El Dias de los Muertos is a holiday that uses various forms of festivities to celebrate death accept it and one could argue actually cherish it. The notion that death is cherish in Los Dias de los Muertos, which is Spanish for the day of the…

I. Biography of Poet: Francisco Rivera Francisco Rivera was born in 1973 to debt ridden subsistence farmers in a war torn Central American nation. While times were tough, family life and the natural beauty of the nearby beach and country side provided solace and happy memories. Then war returned to the land. His parents along with three of his siblings and eventually his wife were among the large numbers of civilian casualties in a long civil war which ravished their nation and resulted in…

The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo is a documentary of her life, they talk about all that she went through as a child. Frida Kahlo was an amazing artist but she didn't plan to become one, all her life she wanted to become a doctor, have kids and get married. That all changed one day when she was on a bus and it crashed with another vehicle, and she broke her pelvis,some ribs and her leg. During her time of recovery her father encouraged her to paint, and he bought her paint and a few paint…

In most groups, they would have one capital but not the Maya. So the Maya had their own capitals, so each city was its own capital and they had their own government. What the Maya did that was interesting was that they sacrificed people in a weird way. They would throw people into wells and if they survived, they thought they were worthy, so they treated them…