...políticos que estaban sucediendo en aquel tiempo. Esta arte no sólo expresaba lo anterior, si no que tanbien expresaba el pasado indígena y también la perspectiva que se le daba al progreso en un futuro en Mexico. El muralismo también personificó a los estilos europeos de aquel tiempo, siendo la figura humana y el color que eran las características mas importantes. Ni el cubismo ni el surrealismo utilizaban este tipo de arte, el muralismo creó su propia esencia regresando al realismo para expresar los probemas políticos. Ejemplos de artistas y sus obras muralistas Frida Khalo: -Conocida como una de las pintoras mas importantes de la historia mexicana. -En su mayoría, sus pinturas son autobiografías. -Frida expresaba su dolor a través de sus pinturas. -Su estilo es conocido como el “mexicanismo”, gracias a sus colores llamativos, y alegorías de la cultura mexicana. -Diego Rivera describía las pinturas de Frida diciendo que revelan una energía de expresión, deineacion precisa de carácter y verdadera sinceridad. Tina Modotti: -Tina hizo una colaboración grande con fotos para la difusión de...
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...Frida Kahlo: Su Vida en Un Lienzo Frida Kahlo es una de las más talentosas artistas en la historia. Era una mujer distinta, particularmente en sus autorretratos con cejas negras unidas y un bigote. Las características de su personalidad incluían su fuerza e independencia porque no se asustaba para expresar exactamente lo que sentía, y por eso, era muy valiente y servía como modelo de alguien que poseía mucha franqueza con ella misma. Para empezar, su personalidad era muy exquisita. Tenía un corazón tan grande como el mundo porque trataba a sus sirvientes como su propia familia. Siempre trataba a todos con igualdad y respeto. También, las actividades que ella le gustaba eran bailar, coquetear, y seducir a otras personas porque ella le encantaba divertirse y tenía un sentido de humor poco convencional, especialmente para una mujer, porque participaba en chistes inapropiados. En continuación, otro aspecto de la vida de Frida Kahlo que es interesante era su elección de ropa. Ella era mestiza y quería llevar ropa indígena. Frida estaba muy orgullosa de su herencia y raíces y nunca estaba asustaba por compartir este sentimiento con otras personas porque lo que sí es cierto es que le encantaba México, su patria, con todo su corazón. Su ropa, especialmente sus faldas, eran largas y a veces tocaban sus pies. Su ropa decorativa es evidente en su arte también. A pesar de que Frida tenía capacidades físicas que limitaba lo que podía hacer, vivía su vida haciendo todo lo que quería hacer...
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...Even though both images have a great significance to Frida they convey different messages to the audience. In Time Flies, Frida resembles herself as a strong competent person that is looking fiercely to her viewers. As well in The Broken Column, she remains the same, but with a disastrous and gloomy tone. Both images are strong but portray different tones because they were in different time lines. During the time she painted Time Flies she fell in love with Diego Rivera and married him in 1929. Frida had a better mindset, so she painted herself in a more delighted mood. In contrast, The Broken Column seemed to have a different tone because she presented herself as a more dreadful person. She was feeling disconnected to herself and wasn’t a...
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...One of my favorite female historical figures is Frida Kahlo. She was a Mexican painter best known for her self-portraits, relationship with Diego Rivera and health problems. At six years old, Frida developed polio, which caused a physical disfigurement of her legs that she eventually covered up with long, wide and colorful skirts. Her early life was very active and included many sports that were considered male dominated activities at the time such as boxing and bicycling. At the age of 18, she ended up in a serious accident with a bus and a trolley car that resulted in the breaking of her spinal column, collarbone, ribs and pelvis along with other fractures and dislocations. In addition to these injuries, a handrail was driven through her abdomen and uterus further preventing her from ever having children of her own. Along with the great physical pain of this accident, severe mental anguish plagued Frida. Her pain left her often times bedridden and barely able to move. To keep herself distracted from her pain, she began to paint, as it did not take much physical effort on her part. She primarily painted herself, sometimes in intense and superbly colorful environments and ways. Her portraits were always very honest and personal. They expressed her own pain as a woman and the physical trials her body had to endure such as her many miscarriages or her body in casts and restraints due to her accident. This is the aspect of Frida that always awed me, her ability to bare her soul...
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...McCracken Spanish 120B December 3, 2009 Through the eyes of tradition People express themselves in many different ways throughout their lives. Painters are known for using there past experiences to illustrate their lives and feelings. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter with a passion to paint. Her paintings portrayed very strong messages throughout her life including the tragic events that helped her shape who she was. In Julie Taymor’s film “Frida”: her private and professional life was depicted through different events. In this film as well as in people’s daily lives ethnicity is a factor, which, influences the actions and practices that construct your character. As Taymor opens the film with a scene of Frida laying on her bed to get to her exhibition, she shows how she never gave up on her commitment to what she started. As a result to a horrific accident that enables Frida from time to time in her life she starts painting portraits of her family and herself. Taymor shows the role of supra-ethnicity through the character of Kahlo using her lifestyle, clothing, and traditions. Taymor draws the viewers into this post-revolutionary era in Mexico by constructing Frida’s style of living in a different time. Through her life Frida dresses and acts out the role that the indigenous women in Mexico live by, but includes her own style to it. By using the traditional clothing of an indigenous woman she shows the beauty and empowerment that the women obtain. The lifestyle that...
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...a soothing sensation. The main colors used here are blue, gray and brown; the only white that was used was for the woman in the picture. I think the reason why Rivera used white for the woman’s dress was to draw attention directly to her and the work she is doing. There is a lot of roundness in the painting. For example, the skillet where the tortillas are heating is round, the stone grinder is oval, and the woman’s arms and body are also round. Overall, Rivera synchronized all the objects in this painting to the same size, everything is painted is bold and big. He had a great sense of color and an enormous talent for structuring his work. Diego Rivera, the creator of this painting, was Mexican and was married to another famous artist, Frida Kahlo. A lot of Rivera’s later work was influenced by historical, political and social themes to show the life of Mexican people. Rivera made La Molendera in the year 1924, which was the time of The Immigration Act of 1924, (The Johnson- Reed Act). The Immigration Act limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. Rivera helped established the Mexican Mural Movement along with two other artists, which mainly existed to...
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...suffering of the people from a war or massacre. Lastly some artists like to show the world in a new way or show it how they view it from their own eyes. The two paintings i have chosen for this assignment are “The Two Fridas” and “The Persistence of Memory”. They are two of my favorites and I learned a lot about them while I was taking a Spanish class in high school. I do not know as much about them as I would like to but I do intend to spend the time learning about them. “The Two Fridas” painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939. She painted this shortly after divorcing Diego Rivera. When Frida painted the Two Fridas, the role that she was portraying was giving form to the intangibles. I say this because it is portraying her feelings about her divorces. When she was one person, the woman in the European dress, her husband of the time rejected her and betrayed her. When she was the woman in traditional dress, the woman on the right, he loved her. What she is showing is that both woman are connected because they are the same person. In the painting you can see that the Frida on the left is holding a pair of scissors. There is blood flowing down onto her dress from what appears to be a vein that she had intentionally severed from her other half, the Traditional Frida on the right. They are holding hands to show that she loves herself even...
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...Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican artist. She was known for her unique paintings and self-portraits. Her paintings are unique because she uses art as a form of spiritual and personal healing. Some of her paintings also possess elements of feminism and political commentary. Frida was in no way afraid to express herself sexuality neither in real life nor in her artwork. “She had a lurid imagination, and her fascination with sexual organs, also seen in the drawings in her journal and in a number of her paintings, burst forth in the ‘exquisite corpses.’” (Frida 162). What The Water Gave Me and Self Portrait Dedicated to Marte R Gomez, pencil on paper were painted by Frida Kahlo in 1938 and 1946 respectively. What The Water Gave Me shows Frida in a bathtub from a first-person perspective. Her feet emerge from the water and reflect onto the water’s surface. Events of her life are also reflected upon the water. “Her fantasy was a product of her temperament, life and place; it...
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...At the Norton Simon Museum of Art, in Pasadena California, I was able to see Diego Rivera’s “The Flower Girl (Girl with Lilies)” on display. This painting was located in the “20th Century Galleries” section of the museum. All of the works in that are located in this section of the museum are considered modern art. The wall text gives a brief history of Diego Rivera’s life and describes what is being depicted in the painting, “Rivera entered art school at a very young age and moved to Europe in 1907. There he was deeply affected by the great Italian muralists and contemporary French painters. Returning home in 1921, he became a painter of murals, and over the next several years the direction of Mexican art changed dramatically under his leadership. During the 1930s, Rivera painted a number of large murals in the United States and had a major influence on American art, as the federal government began to fund the painting of large murals in public buildings. The theme of a flower vendor, dwarfed by a massive display of flowers, was one that Rivera painted many times.” Being able to see this painting in person at the museum was a serial experience, seeing it made it real and not just a painting I can see in a book or on a poster. I grew up admiring this painting at a family members house, who had a replica hung up in a one of their rooms. Visiting the museum inspired me to go visit other museums to see other painting that I admire. In “The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies)”, Diego...
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...Frida Kahlo: The Woman. The Artist. Why did I choose Frida Kahlo for my research paper? I choose Ms. Kahlo because she is my favorite artist. I first learned of her in middle school and immediately fell in love with her work. It was very emotionally impacting. I have included many samples of her artwork. The things she saw and accomplished prompted the sensational works that spilled out of her brush. She had not wanted to follow in the imaginative strides of her photographic artist father and granddad. Yet, take a gander at the silver coating of the deplorability of her mischance. As opposed to turning into a specialist, she painted pictures that made individuals talk and examine. She is presently unmistakable worldwide for her one of a kind representations toward oneself. Frida Kahlo was a female Mexican painter of mixed heritage, born on July 6, 1907, who lived 47 painful years before passing away on July 13, 1954. Within her short life, Frida was slightly crippled from polio, suffered from a serious streetcar accident that left her infertile, married famous muralist Diego Rivera, divorced, remarried Rivera, became a political activist and rose to fame through her oil paintings, all before succumbing to her poor health. She was an intelligent female in a society that wanted women to be pretty, submissive wives and mothers. She struggled with cultural demands of her gender in a time when women were demanding a change in their role. All these aspects of her life, and more...
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...On 16 December 2012, a twenty-three-year-old woman was being sexually violated and was abused by six men on a bus. Her condition drastically worsened as a result of her fatal injuries to the extend she had to move from Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital to Singapore hospital. Two weeks later, she succumb to severe internal injury. In India, women faced many culture challenges. “It’s really a constellation of factors hindering women’s rights, including gender sex selection, literacy, child marriage , and violence.” (Council on Foreign Relations, Beina Xu, 10 June 2013) Most raped go unrecorded, primarily because of cultural stigmas encircling such events that could bring humiliation to victims and their families. But those who report their cases will face a dehumanizing experiences. People in India oppose not only in retaliation of the incidents but to convey their exasperation toward how unfairly the women are treated especially in the case of rape, and the serious insufficiencies in the law and order. Men do not show any remorseful for the incident but instead they blame the women for not protecting herself and allow the rape to happen. Culture is the value, beliefs, language and norms that form the way of life in the society. On the other hand, Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine. Adjacent to these topics, women are treated unfairly in a particular incident. Sexism is one of the major issue that’s going on in India, where...
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...and her sisters in their house to protect them from gunfire. It is also reported that Kahlo’s mother would house the less fortunate people that lived in the streets of their village in their house from ongoing fighting. At the young age of six Kahlo had contracted poliomyelitis, otherwise known as polio, affecting her nervous system and the growth of her body leaving her with one leg noticeably thinner than the other.(Collins) Kahlo also had experienced spina bifida, a defect affecting her brain and spinal cord as well as her bones.(Beaver)All the same this did not slow down the young Kahlo,said to be a tomboy, assumed the role as the son her parents wanted.(Collins)Kahlo frequently played physical contact sports like boxing. As a child Frida Kahlo aspired to be a doctor and study medicine.(Myers283)Being that her parents were the encouraging people that they were Guillermo and Matilde Kahlo enrolled their daughter in The Preparatoria in 1922. The Preparatoria was one of the most prestigious schools in Mexico, where Kahlo was a part of the small female student body containing thirty five girls. (Beaver)During her attendance at The Preparatoria Kahlo joined a teenage gang. It was then Kahlo fell for her first love,the head of the gang, Alejandro Gomez Arias. Soon after Kahlo found herself in many dangerous confrontations in and out of the gang, it became a regular occurrence for her to witness acts of violence. On September 17th,1925 Kahlo was involved in an accident when the bus...
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...Tonita Vigil Peña, also known by her Pueblo Indian name of Quah Ah, was a prominent artist in the 1920’s and 1930’s. She was born on May 10, 1893 to Ascensión Vigil and Natividad Peña in San Ildefonso, New Mexico. Tonita lived their with her family until she was twelve years old, when her mother and younger sister died of influenza. Her father, unable to care for her, sent Tonita to Cochití Pueblo to live with her aunt, an accomplished Pueblo potter. Tonita lived there for the rest of her life and became a teacher at the Santa Fe Indian School and Albuquerque Indian School. She married three times over the course of her life, her first marriage at the age of fifteen and arranged by her village elders. Tonita gave birth to six children in all....
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...Frida Kahlo's, The Love Embrace of The Universe This paper explores the life and art works of Mexican Painter Frida Kahlo. Her work was very significant because it was influenced by the indigenous Mexican culture. Frida suffered a tragic accident at the age of 18 that changed the course of her life forever. After the streetcar accident in 1925, Frida was left disabled and started to paint during her recovery. She became the most celebrated female painter of all time. It is believed that her paintings were influenced by her husband Naturalist Diego Rivera. Many of Frida’s self-portrait paintings captured a life filled with pain and suffering. Frida Kahlo was considered a Surrealist artist. However, she denied being a true Surrealist and did not like to be compared to them. Frida Kahlo's, The Love Embrace of the Universe, is what I believe to be her interpretation of love. I see many forms of love in this particular painting, one form within another. In this paper I will explain the colors of her painting, the background of her painting, and the earth in the painting. Kahlo's paintings are rich in bright vibrant colors. The meaning of the colors used in her painting are what I think she uses to represent her paintings quit well. She uses green for good warm light, magenta; Aztec old tlapali blood of prickly pear, the brightest and oldest. She uses brown to represent moles, leaves and land on earth. Yellow represents madness, sickness and fear example the sun & joy. The cobalt...
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...Diego and I (1949) Frida Kahlo. Frida was such an amazing, inspiring, and creative artist, all her paintings had so much meaning about events that happened in her life. “Diego and I (1949)” is all about her and her husband Diego and what their relationship was truly about. Diego and Frida’s relationship had so many levels and each so full of pain or happiness. The thing I like most about this painting is that it shows the anguish that Frida has towards Diego Rivera. One key thing many people don’t know about Frida is that her husband cheated on her, constantly, and she knew that but still stayed with him. The significance of Frida’s painting is love and the joy and heartbreak it can cause. The meaning of Diego Rivera on Frida’s forehead is that she always has him on her mind and she loves him so deeply no matter how badly he hurts her, Diego is Frida’s third eye. Diego on the other hand, has an actual third eye resembling lying, and cheating, it shows that Diego does not think about Frida because if he did Frida would have painted herself on his forehead. The third eye references Frida made in her painting shows how their relationship works or how it was formed. The portrait includes a variety of symbols and objects including tears falling down her cheeks, a third on Diegos forehead, Diegos face on the middle of Fridas forehead, hair closing around Fridas neck and her mono-brow. The paint has been well blended and has been applied smoothly, but not to the extent that the portrait...
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