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self portrait, called “Self portrait with Cropped Hair”, after she cut all of her hair off. The lyrics at the top of the picture say, “Look, if I loved you it was because of you hair. Now that you are without hair, I don’t love you anymore.” Since Diego loved her long hair so much, she cut all of it off. Even though she painted this a month after her divorce, they got back together a year after. This painting, called the “Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird”, was one of the 55 self portraits she…

jungle to capture her drive and fierceness. Diego was already out of the house for the day, he took a trip into town to gather supplies and inspiration for his next project, a a man and woman from their village carrying flowers in a giant basket. Just a normal day at the Kahlo and Rivera house.…

Polio. As her career as a painter begin to grow, she started to live all around the world such as, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Fifty-five of her paintings are self-portraits. She was also known as a bisexual Hispanic painter. Her paintings were mainly oil paintings. Because of her polio, Frida was hospitalized for about nine months due to her spinal problems. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are both artists. They do share similarities but are also a lot more…

her work entitled “Moses.” She once wrote that she never knew she was a surrealist “until Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was one.” Breton wrote admirably “The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon about a bomb.” Although Frida avoided labels. Diego said Frida was realist. Pablo Picasso wrote: “Neither Rivera nor Derain, nor do I know how to paint faces such as Frida Kahlo.” Frida said, “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”…

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato Mexico and grew up there until his family moved to Mexico City in 1893. Accepted into the San Carlos Academy at the age of ten, Rivera began his education and his career during a troubled time not only for Mexico but also within the world stage. Socialism and Marxism were on the rise and at the time his native Mexico was struggling to re-establish its own identity before Spanish influence. Diego Rivera’s art would contribute to the voice of the oppressed…

Although Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter, he influenced many people by his historical roots in Mexico and his contributions to American society throughout the first half of the twentieth century were eye opening. During an era of revolutions in both politics and technology, Rivera was one of the many who was inspired to create work that was socially extreme at the time. His views of Communism, his view on Capitalism, and his representation of the industrial revolution around the world caught…

house known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán. At the time, Coyoacán was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York…

intellectually like-minded students. While she was in that school she was recognized for all her beautiful colorful clothes and her jewelry. The same year she got recognized Diego Rivera went to her school to go work on a project at the school. While Diego was there Frida would admire him while he was doing his mural, the mural that Diego was painting was called "The creation in the school's hall." When Frida would hang out with a group that was politically and intellectually like-minded…

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…

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…