Mariano Rivera

Frida Kahlo Exposed Her Soul on Canvas Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City on July 7, 1907. Though she wanted many to believe that she was born in 1910, the year of the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Her father was a photographer of Hungarian Jewish decent, and her mother was Spanish and Native American. From an early age Frida's life would be marked by years of physical suffering. At the age of six she was stricken with polio, this left her right leg to appear much thinner than the other

“We all have unique identities that we develop within our cultures, but these identities are not fixed or static” (Trumbull and Pacheco 8). People should examine their culture to have a better understanding of how it affects their identity and perceptions. In order to understand one’s cultural identity, he or she need to understand what the term means. According to one source, cultural identity can be defined as, “These different experiences and the new values, beliefs, and ideas they produce contribute

CATEGORY: ART Christina Gao P.2 Example Scene/Specific Event Connection/Significance Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange In this black and white photo, a woman is seen pondering in distress. Around her are rags of dirty cloth and her clothes seem to be of poor quality. Her two children have their heads, lying on her shoulders and have their faces turned away from the camera. The infant, lying in the arms of the woman, is sleeping peacefully. The infant’s face is covered

She was one of six daughters. At the age of six, she contracted polio and at the age of eighteen she was in a serious accident. After the wreck, she was unable to complete her testing in school. She would later marry another famous artist, Diego Rivera. They would later divorce around the time of Kahlo gaining fame. Her art often had a dark theme, including the piece “Self-Portrait with Monkeys.” Her work is considered primitivism, “indigenism” and Surrealism (“Frida Kahlo Biography, Art, and Analysis

spinal column and her pierced uterus damaging her reproductive system permanently. She shared the same interests as her father, but looked very much like her mother according to Moffat. In the film from Art 160 class of Frida, Kahlo married Diego Rivera in which marriage she was not very as she referred marrying him as her second accident. She lost two children that were never fully developed due to her accident. Diego and Frida divorced due to infidelity and betrayal. In 1940 a year

Cultural Identity is “The definition of groups or individuals (by themselves or others) in terms of cultural or subcultural categories (including ethnicity, nationality, language, religion, and gender)” (Oxford Reference). Everyone has cultural identity even though some are unaware of theirs because their habits and traditions might be seen as normal to the person and they might not make the connection that it is a cultural tradition or connected to their cultural identity. Some people are very aware

that he was on her mind. Likewise, in the painting, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana by Frida Kahlo, the same idea is portrayed. In the portrait, Diego Rivera is pictured on Frida Kahlo's forehead, symbolizing that he is on her mind. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were married, and had their ups and downs. Despite their struggles, Kahlo did not stop loving Rivera, with him always being on her mind. Both pieces of art, the film Destino and the Self-Portrait as a Tehuana both show that the male in the relationship

Beauty contests are competitions where the contestants are ranked and judged based on their answers to the judges questions and their physical traits. According to racked, the idea of beauty contests was made in 1854. Phineas Taylor Barnum desired for Beauty pageants to be held, but it didn’t take off until later on. The first Beauty pageant called “Atlantic City’s Inter-City Beauty Contest” was held at Atlantic City in 1921. The first woman to win was Margaret Gorman. There are beauty pageants for

Diego Rivera: the Detroit Industry What you see is what you get Daphinne Campodonico Professor K. Ewing Art 1560 30 June 2015 “As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.” ― Diego Rivera Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and muralist who greatly changed the art world. He didn’t care what other people thought about his art and he painted what

the political and social obligations of artists. According to Soltes (2011), several Mexican artists of the early twentieth century were inspired by the revolutions and political unrest occurring in Mexico, which was reflected in their work. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) considered one of Mexico’s Renaissance artists, influenced by European avant-garde style, painted Zapatista Landscape (1915). This work was done as Rivera’s tribute to the Mexican revolutionary “Emiliano Zapata who had played a key role