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Miguel Cabrera became one of the most known painters during the 18th century. Cabrera had many important patrons ranging from the archbishop of Mexico City and the miner Jose de la Borda in Taxco. Cabrera is known for a series of Casta paintings. The Casta paintings were depictions of the mixed races in New Spain, current Mexico. De Mestizo y india, coyote is a painting Cabrera did in 1763 (Figure1). In the painting, the colors are very vivid and smooth. There is a man which is the Mestizo and…

The painting Las Meninas is a very exquisite painting. It requires deep thought to understand. Although Velázquez painted the original, Picasso also made his own interpretation of it in a cubistic painting more fit to his style. There are differences and similarities to the two paintings and each painter needed much motivation to paint both masterpieces. The original Las Meninas painted by Velázquez, has a subtle but deep underlying meaning that can be difficult to define. In the painting you…

her mother was Spanish with indigenous ancestry. The indigenous dress and culture greatly inspired Kahlo. Kahlo was married to Diego Rivera, who was over twenty years older than her. The two had multiple complications in their marriage resulting in them divorcing, however, the divorce only lasted a year before they remarried. The two lived in “La Casa Azul” and when Diego died he donated the house to Mexico where it is now a museum dedicated to Kahlo. When Kahlo was 18, she was aboard a bus that…

Joan Miró was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist. He was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, Spain. He grew up in Barrie Gótic. He focused his art on Surrealism and Automatism. Surrealism is the sandbox for the subconscious mind; Automatism is the”random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. While he was working in the business world he had a nervous breakdown and left the business completely for art. In 1924, Miró joined a Surrealist group. Miró…

holding on to both Rivera and Posada. 3. Iconography: Frida Kahlo can be seen holding a yin yang symbol in one hand, which can represent that Kahlo and Rivera compliment each other, like yin and yang. Kahlo is also depicted with her other hand on young Diego Rivera’s shoulder, showing the mother-son relationship between…

For as long as art has existed there have been people using it to express themselves, however the most powerful and memorable works tend to be those that come from an artist with great struggles, for the emotion of that struggle is embedded in every brush on the canvas. Albeit from two contrary cultures and century, Frida Kahlo born and raised in 1900’ Mexico and Annette Bezor from 1950’, Australia, the two woman have both made impact in the feminist world with their paintings, expressing…

Common themes that were in Kahlo’s approx. 200 paintings, sketches and drawings were life experience, the human body, death and identity. Besides being very well known for her work, she was also known for her relationship with fellow communist artist Diego Rivera – whom she married in 1929, divorced 10 years later, and remarried…

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…

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…

Though she grew bored with lying in her bed with nothing to do, she soon began to paint and slowly the artist within her began to arise. At the age of twenty-one, she could finally leave her home and met her future husband Diego again. After Frida showed some of her paintings to Diego after calling him down from his scaffold one night, their relationship seemed to grow until they were married on August 21, 1929. As the years go by, she continues to paint until one day in an American hospital…