Diego Rivera

Frida Khalo was born in Mexico City, has a young woman she was in a bus accident causing her to have life long injuries and pain. The time spent bedridden recovering, allowed her to develop her painting skill. Khalo had deep connection to her culture and heritage using symbols within her work. In 1928 Khalo married Diego Rivera a fellow artist their relationship was turbulent. Diego cheated on her with many other women that effect Khalo and her Art. Due to her injuries, Khalo could never carry a child to full term, this was

Diego Rivera born in 1886 in Guanajuato Mexico. At a young age had a passion for art. At the age of 20 years old was given a scholarship to study in Europe. He studied in Europe for 14 years he first started with Cubist style painting but then in Italy he found his medium. Rivera purpose was a way to express the complexities of the fragile political ground that was going on around the world plus show the struggles of the working class. He then returned back to Mexico to learn and understand the Mexican culture and the working class. He wanted his art frescos accessible to both the rich and poor. He wanted to show in his murals the working class and also how technology was important and how

People may refer to Frida Kahlo as the lady with the unibrow, but others refer to her as one the greatest Mexican painters. She was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyocoan Mexico. When she was about 6 she was diagnosed with polio which is a highly contagious viral infection that can lead to paralysis, breathing problems, or even death. (Crosta 1) Due to polio she was bedridden for 9 months. Frida attended the National Preparatory School where she first noticed Diego Rivera who is a famous muralist. At this time she fell in love with another man Alejandro Gomez Arias. She and Alejandro were on a trip when a monumental moment happened which will change her life forever…. (Frida Kahlo Biography 1)

Diego was an important factor in Frida´s Art, he was her husband and as a result he impacted aspects of her life, for example: positive emotions, as well as negative emotions, travels, abortions, support and infidelities. All these topics where expressed on Frida´s masterpiece paintings, without Diego her paintings would have not been the same. Here is a look back on Frida and Diego´s troublous relationship:

Although his love for art was immense, Rivera’s relationship with the passionate Frida Kahlo would rival against it. After they met through a mutual friend (“Chronology” 6), Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist (Krull 85), were married in Coyoacán on August 21, 1929 (“Chronology” 6). Rivera was 42 years old, and Frida was 22 years old (“Chronology”6). They were nicknamed the Elephant and the Dove because Rivera was over six feet tall and weighed 300 pounds as opposed to Frida, who was five feet three inches and weighed 98 pounds (Krull 85). This marriage was Rivera’s third and Frida’s first (Krull 85).

In 1932, through use of oil on metal, Frida Kahlo paints herself as many other Mexican citizens after the revolution in “Self Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States.” In the image, the sun and moon only stand over Mexico, which Kahlo is telling us where her heart truly lies. It is evident as she stands in her pink dress, bare chest showing through, with cigarette in one hand and Mexican flag in the other that she stands true to her feminist mind and Mexican culture. Kahlo stands on a cement block reading “Carmen Rivera painted her picture in 1932” (PBS.org), which marks the border between Mexico and the United States. In 1930, when her husband and fellow artist, Diego Rivera, “received several commissions to paint murals in the United States, they packed their bags and moved north.” Although “Diego was content in America, Frida was homesick and miserable,” thus inspiring this

Diego Rivera was born in Mexico in 1886. When his career began his aim was to depict the lives of Mexico and its people. Some of his work was quite controversial; one of his pieces was even destroyed by the Rockefeller family in

Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of three years Rivera began drawing on his walls at home and his parents saw this and instead of punishing him for drawing on the walls they nurtured his creativity. Rivera made art that portrayed the lives of working class Mexican people. Rivera’s passion for art began from a young age. Around 10 old years he went on to study art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City where he received training modeled on conservative European academies. Later in his life he traveled to Europe to continue his art studies where he friended many famous artists such as Pablo Picasso. In Spain, Rivera studied the work of El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, and the Flemish masters

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” This quote is very true to Frida Kahlo, a well-known and widely esteemed Mexican artist in the mid 1900s, because it didn’t seem to matter what life threw at her since she was always able to pick herself up and keep moving forward. Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico, and grew up in a very tight knit family with her mom, dad and sisters. She had an extremely action-packed life that was a constant roller coaster of positive and negative events. Although many people in America don’t know Frida Kahlo, she is greatly admired in Mexico for overcoming childhood struggles, for her artwork, for persevering through setbacks, and for her long lasting legacy.

Surrealism was one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th Century. André Breton consolidated Surrealism as a movement in the early 1920s, trying to achieve the “total liberation of the mind and of all that resembles it[1]” through innovative and varied ideas. Surrealism deeply influenced the world in the era between the two world wars and played a big role in the diffusion and adoption of psychology worldwide. Surrealism faded after World War II, but its revolutionary genius has influenced every artistic movement ever since.

The accident left her infertile and constantly in pain. Kahlo is married, but because of complications, had to remarry a famous muralist of Mexico, Diego Rivera. Kahlo is a very intelligent woman who speaks for and believes

The surrealist artists believed the dream state and subconscious mind to be an untapped and very fertile creative fount of inspiration. The symbolism of dreams and the expressive images generated by the subconscious were far more thought provoking than the representational, logical images of the conscious mind. The surrealist artists were creating art out of what others thought to be garbled and unintelligible. They were in effect taking a concept created to heal and using it to create art instead. They were on to something with this. No matter what the medium or the style used, a bit of the self becomes visible and evident in the result. Art therapy is one of the modern descendants of this movement.

To begin, we will look at the ideals and influences that led to the formation of surrealist ideals,

Frida Kahlo was married to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. While married to Rivera, Frida gave up painting. She loved Diego Rivera very much and wanted to be important to him. Frida knew that his murals were the number one in his life. Once she saw the reality that she would always come after Diego’s art, she became obsessed with trying to be number one, and devoted her life to being with him.

In 1925, the original surrealists forged a clear and resounding document, stating, among other things, that the surrealist movement is a revolution, unarguably. They asserted that their movement was not one of poetic form. Furthermore, that it was not even a literary movement. They firmly established, in the infancy of Surrealism, that it was not an aesthetic endeavour. It was “a revolution of the mind.”