Eleanora Derenkowskaia‚ better known as Maya Deren‚ was a Russian-American filmmaker and is considered one the most influential and prominent experimental filmmakers during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Although Deren completed only six films and two monographs in her lifetime‚ her relatively limited body of work has made a enormous impact on the history of cinema and specifically the American avant-garde. Her aesthetic approach to film‚ combined with her unique themes‚ has propelled her body of work into
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“The Leap” by Louise Erdrich is a short story about a woman named Anna‚ a now retired acrobat. Flying Avalons was the name of the heart stopping Acrobat team that Anna performed in with her late husband Harry. One sunny afternoon in June the couple was performing their breathtaking stunt‚ but the unpredictability of New Hampshire weather brought disaster with it. A mid-afternoon thunderstorm brought the fatality of Anna’s husband and unborn child after a stray lightning bolt hit the top of the carnival
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Maya Angelou‚ sharing a similar name as the renaissance artist Michael Angelo‚ was an artist in her own respect. She painted pictures of her childhood that effected people‚ and changed their perspectives. Overcoming many obstacles she was able to live an accomplished life. She wrote many books‚ she was active in the civil rights movement‚ and she was a mentor to many. Baggage and pain never dragged her expressions to a frown. Her smile will be remembered just as much as her distinct poetry. Maya
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Introducion Birth‚ maternity and death‚ three concepts drawn and sculpted by the hands of Käthe Kollwitz in all her work. Pain can have a rare beauty‚ an adjacent romanticism‚ and this was something that Kollwitz could extract from the essence of her being. Observing her work‚ one can feel like doing a poetic journey that leads us to existential paradigms‚ where the ugly can be beautiful as well as black can be white‚ or where the sadness can be happiness. When i first sow her drawings during the
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Mirkin’s article‚ “Aurora Reyes: ataque a la maestra rural‚” was about one of the most iconic women in Mexican history. She was a very inspiring woman‚ she still found time to create her murals and fight for what she believed in all while being a single mother of two and having a job. Reyes was someone who fought for things that were dear to her such as education‚ children‚ and equality for women. I found it interesting but not surprising that her murals reflected her beliefs and illustrated the
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The artist named Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez‚ better known as Diego Rivera‚ was and remains a prominent Mexican painter. Diego Rivera was born on the 8th of December 1886 in Guanajuato‚ Mexico and died on November 24‚ 1957 in Mexico City Mexico. Recognizing their son’s artistic abilities‚ at twelve years old Rivera was enrolled at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts (Souter‚ 2). Two years after graduation the government sponsored
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the portraits “aesthetic beauty”‚ rather than its ability to give us insight on the artists psychological‚ physical and emotional views of themselves. Frida Kahlo De Rivera (1907- 1954)‚ was a Mexican artist whose works “were strongly linked with her own life experiences‚ whilst also relating to world events‚ politics and the wider art world.” Kahlo is best known for her self-portraits‚ they demonstrate her need for self-expression and her exploration of identity. Although her physical features and
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Frida Kahlo developed and used her creativity to relieve her physical and emotional anguish by painting self-portraits depicting her life. With a life full of tragedy‚ heartbreak‚ and immense struggle‚ she had very strong symbolism in her paintings. In her 1939 painting‚ Los Dos Fridas‚ Kahlo creates a painting displaying her emotions at that time in her life. Shortly before she painted this piece of artwork‚ she and her husband‚ Diego Rivera‚ had divorced therefore leading one to believe the symbolism
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reality was Frida Kahlo. Frida is an outstanding role model‚ for she was a strong and independent woman. A person can only wonder how people find the drive to do amazing things. Pain and suffering was a massive part of Frida’s life‚ but she made the best of it and started herself down a path of fame. “Painting would become her salvation‚ providing an outlet for the tremendous physical suffering she would endure for the rest of her life” (Furlong). “As a result of an accident at age 15‚ Kahlo turned her
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begins by discussing the profound impact that Frida Kahlo and her work has had on numerous types of people from all over the world. Bakewell then uses the rest of the article to begin to unearth what it is about Frida that resonates and feels so familiar to a variety of different people. It is argued that Frida uses identity politics‚ specifically Mexican identity‚ and subjectivity to construct a self that is portrayed within her paintings. Frida lived during a time where the nation of Mexico
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