The gallery that I visited in the Museum of Modern Art focused on Social Realism, which consists of artwork created between the two World Wars. This period was defined by international political turmoil as well as the difficulties of a global economic depression. A number of artists in both Mexico and the United States used art to respond to these conditions; they created issue-oriented art that summoned awareness to the unfortunate and bleak circumstances that bounded them. Rather than abstraction
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Camila M. Guajardo González #364986 January 12, 2015. Room 1101 I had an incredible time on my winter vacations of December 2014 and January 2015. My dad and all of his brothers planned a trip to Mexico City. The flight was the morning of December 27th at 7:00 a.m so we needed to be at the airport at 5:30 am more less. Counting my family and all the families we were going, we were 21 people
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Frida Kahlo’s painting, Self-portrait along the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, depicts two very different worlds in the case of Mexico and the United States. Frida seems to be stuck between the worlds and her painting shows the differences between them and the feelings she has towards the two worlds. Through the colors used and images painted in Frida Kahlo’s portrait she is conveying her dislike of the U.S. and her love and favoritism for Mexico and its culture. The most eye
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Oscar de la Renta was born in 1933 in the Dominican Republic. At the age of 18 Oscar left his native county and moved to Spain to study painting at the San Fernando Art School. While he was living in Spain he found out his passion for fashion and began design for many upcoming Spanish fashion shows. This soon brought Oscar to being an apprentice with Spain's most famous designer, Christian Balenciaga. Soon after that Oscar de la Renta left Spain and began working with Antonio Castillo as a couture
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she was also was also realizing that she would not ever be able to carry a pregnancy to term. She experienced this situation in a foreign city that she did not like, the city of Detroit, Michigan. They were in the city of Detroit because her husband Diego was creating his famous Detroit Industry frescoes (frescoes, is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster) at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In the background of the painting Frida included the Ford family’s factories
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo was born on June 30, 1943 to fishmongers in London, England. While Jetsunma was a child she always felt like she didn't belong with the religious beliefs she was raised with. Consistently throughout her childhood she would read books and study other religious beliefs, in an attempt to find her true spiritual path. It wasn't until Jetsunma was 18 and finally read a book about Buddhism while stuck at the airport with her mother. After reading the book Jetsunma proclaimed to her
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Frida Kahlo’s painting Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States represents her cultural identity by showing where she grew up and wants to be, and where she lives and what that place is like. On one side there is Mexico, which is where she grew up, got into a life changing accident, got married, and sold most of her paintings. After she got into the accident, Frida Kahlo started to paint how she felt, which changed as time went on. She painted about after the accident
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Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo is a famous Mexican painter. She was born July 6 of 1907 in Coyoacàn Mexico, and Died July 13 of 1954. Frida was born and passed away in the same house, the house gained a nickname of “ La Case Azul” for its vivid blue exterior. She is known for her unibrow and self portraits, she was inspired to do this style by Mexican popular culture. A third of her paintings were self portraits, with this being said she uses one of her quotes “I paint myself because I am
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Throughout history we have largely recognized the two artists Pablo Picasso and Frida kahlo, they have both created amazing artworks in the own way and own style but they have many similarities and differences and they both have a great reputation in the history of art, Pablo Picasso mostly specialized in cubism in his artworks he was well renowned for painting his personal experiences for example in the painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon he has painted an group of ladies from which when he went
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Similarly to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera before meeting, Jeanne-Claude and Christo had a very different relationship to the arts to one another. The pair, known as Jeanne-Claude and Christo, are renowned for their ‘wrapping works’: gigantic outdoor installations which consists in temporarily wrapping entire monuments in cloth around the world (. Christo had been drawn to spacial design ever since he started aged twelve putting on plays to amuse his parents and their friends. During those plays
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