The Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is by Miguel Cabrera and was created around 1750. The artwork depicts a portrait of a Catholic nun‚ Sor Juana. The artwork is located in Latin America in the Spanish colonies of Mexico. Sor Juana joined the religious order of the Catholic Church and became a nun in order to pursue her intellectual interests. Sor Juana is depicted looking straight at the view and the iconography of the portrait is quite typical of nun portraits from 18th century Mexico. She
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Grief is a strong and overwhelming emotion that no one likes‚ but it is one that is inevitable. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines grief as a "deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement" (Merriam-Webster). Individual experiences of grief differ but the most common one‚ unfortunately‚ is the loss of a loved one. Artists have the unique ability to portray their own interpretation of different topics through their individual work. These interpretations are in form of music‚ films
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I selected Frida Kahlo “Tree of Life” as my selected painting. I have chosen this because it really is one of meaningful picture which express suffering and hope. At first when I saw this painting I wasn’t aware about anything of the author or the painting. So I thought I will surf through to find something more informative about why the artist had painted this picture and in which situation it has been painted. So before I start let me give a few introduction about the artist and what he convey
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Savannah Shostrom Sandra Castanon English 5-6 16 April 2013 Chicano Art Movement As artists began to actively participate in the efforts to redress the plight of Mexicans in the United States‚ there emerged a new iconography and symbolic language which not only articulated the movement‚ but became the core of a Chicano cultural renaissance. (Venegas) Chicano Art developed in the 1960s during the political eruption of the civil rights movements in the United States. This renaissance in the arts
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Maslow’s assertion is that the solutions that we come up with are a reflection of our ways of knowing (tools) instead of the reflection of the problem. What it means is that we try to define our solutions by the tools we have instead of finding our solutions based on our problem. In finding solutions to a problem using our conventional ways of knowing one question that arises is the extent to which instinctively following our pre-existing ways of knowing to define every problem and solution is appropriate
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The self-portrait The Broken Column was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1944. This work is oil on canvas‚ mounted on masonite‚ and it is 40 x 30.7 cm. The Broken Column is at Museo Dolores Olmedo in Mexico. This painting is one of Kahlo’s most famous iconic self-portraits which represents feminism in its time‚ for it shatters the traditional idealized image of women through it subject matter‚ depiction of female beauty and symbolism. This life-size painting has a horizontal perspective
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Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacan on July sixth 1907. She was contracted polio at an extremely youthful age‚ that left her right foot handicapped. In September 1926 the incident occurred‚ from school when she was returning back home‚ she was gotten on a despicable misfortune on the transport that she was riding in. Within this time‚ it was that she took the paintbrush to keep herself diverted from the candor and pain of her condition. At that point she was a given a mirror by her folks‚ so she could
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Professor Ferris Williams Art History 2 December 2013 For my Formal Analysis I decided to choose the painting that Fridah Kahlo did in 1946 entitled “The Little Deer”. When examining this piece of work I see the deer jumping and running through the forest in action. The deer has a female human style face which is somewhat interesting because Kahlo uses the same type face when doing self-portraits of herself. When viewing this piece I see the arrows striking the deer and blood running out and the
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Frida Kahlo lived an interesting life‚ her strong love for painting was evident all throughout her life‚ despite her many sufferings. Kahlo contracted a disease at a young age and -then at the age of 18‚ in the year of 1925‚ she was in a fat¬¬al bus accident. (Fuentes 11-12) This caused her many troubles and was reflected in her work. Kahlo’s work was first shown in the United States at an exhibition. Later in 1937 four of her paintings were in a show in Mexico City. Her first paintings were bought
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Carmen Herrera is an artist who is inspired by the principles of Bauhaus regarding shape‚ form and colour. This is shown in her work‚ which will be furtherly discussed in this essay in relation to Bauhaus. Bauhaus influence on Carmen herrera can be seen from the simplicity and the combination of colour in the work she did along the years. Carmen Herrera says‚ “My quest is for the simplest of pictorial resolutions” (2012). With the impact of Bauhaus and one’s imagination‚ in Herrera’s work one can
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