Mariano Rivera

Frida Kahlo’s art presented herself as what she really saw. The self-portraits she created were not idealized or meant to be surreal, but an actual representation of the person she thought she was. This pure expression of the self, inspired my own work in many ways. I wanted to create something with duality, as many of her pieces have, and that expressed my sense of self as purely as possible. There were a few challenges I faced, but overall, using Frida Kahlo as inspiration showed me how art…

Diego Rivera Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was born in Guantanamo Mexico, was a well-known artist known for his murals and the wife of Frida Kahlo, another famous painter. Diego was married 4 times and had 3 daughters, but had no children with Frida Kahlo (one of his art students) who was his longest marriage lasting 10 years, married in August 1929 when he was 42 years old and she was 22. Rivera had communist political beliefs and was part of the Mexican communist party.…

things I want to do: paint, paint, paint." Therefore, she started to draw about two months after this circumstance. Her painting works are approximately 200, that included the 55 of her self-portraits. She was Mrs. Diego Rivera during her marriage with a muralist, Diego Rivera. She married with him twice. He was one of the most important parts to affect on her life, include her art work. For instance, one of her works, "self-portrait on the borderline between Mexico and the United States," she…

Kahlo’s self portraits before but I never really knew her name or anything about her. I was though, very jealous of her eyebrow game. After Kahlo was in a nearly fatal accident, where she was impaled in the hip, she began painting. She married Diego Rivera which he was a huge supporter of Kahlo’s painting career. They moved to America, Kahlo painted a few controversial paintings such as Man at the Crossroads and Henry Ford Hospital. In the Man at the Crossroads painting…

that justs stays home. On 1929 Frida got married to Diego but got divorced in December of 1939 due to them both not being faithful during their marriage. Her art work would shows the difficult things she went through during the marriage with Diego Rivera and her health. Frida said “There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the…

Diego Rivera Diego Rivera, born on the 8th of December, is known for his revolutionary artwork. Born in the silver mining town of Guanajuato, Mexico, Rivera showed outstanding potential in art at an early age (Kleiner 735). By the age of 20 he was a master of art and lived in Paris, France. However, the distance was not enough to keep him away from Mexico, and the news of the decade long revolution. Rivera spent 14 years living in Europe, and spent much of his time traveling from country to…

Frida Kahlo was born as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Calderon in Coyoacán, Mexico on July 6th, 1907. In her later years though, Kahlo pronounced that her new birthdate was July 7th, 1910 to coincide with the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, as well as to make herself seem younger (“Frida Kahlo: Complete Biography”). She was one of four daughters born to Wilhelm Kahlo, also known as Guillermo Kahlo, a German-Jewish man of Hungarian decent and Matilde Calderon, a woman of mixed Spanish and Indian…

activities that were physical too for her leg to heal faster. When it was 1922 she went too NAtional Preparatory school. She was known for her joyful spirit and colorful clothing and jewelry. In that same year, she met with an another painter Diego Rivera, since he used to work on a project in that school. She watched him create a mural called “the Creation” in the school's hall. Khalo hanging out with a group of students that suited her well-being. She romantically interacted with one of them…

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who did self-portraits and was considered a feminist icon. She originally wanted to become a doctor but a bus accident left her unable to do so. I chose this artist because she had one eye brow and I thought it was strange for a rich woman to have such a statement in the early 1900s. I thought to myself, she must be an interesting person and I was right. She had no formal training but she developed her artistic skills and later would influence people and…

her childhood and adulthood and her national identity. Personal tragedies were used in many of her paintings that are said to reveal “a disturbing and realistic type of art.” Paintings by Kahlo frequently included emotionally abusive husband Diego Rivera. Art historians mostly refer to Frida Kahlo as a surrealistic artist but Kahlo had always rejected the title claiming “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Later in life Frida had to…