painting is almost describing of where oneself came from. For example‚ It’s almost as if I’m in my Abuela’s house during celebrations where the orange walls are sure to pop. Through her Mexican culture‚ Frida Kahlo is able to create a painting that describes her Mexican roots. While growing up Frida‚ was cared
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they must explore deep into their sub-conscious to find who they truly are as a person and how they can represent that on a canvas‚ print or paper through the use of symbols and other techniques. Two artists who have done this are Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh. Frida Kahlo was one of the most important Mexican artists of her time. She is well known for her harsh revealing self-portraits. She started to paint at the age of 15 after she was in a horrific bus accident‚ where she then began her career
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Radium is an alkaline earth metal that has a silvery-white color. It is closley related to the elements uranium and thorium‚ and has similar structure to calcium. Radium enters the body through inhalation and ingestion. In the case of the Radium Girls‚ it entered their bodys when the pointed their brushes with their lips‚ swallowing the radium paint in small amounts each time. At the time‚ there was almost no knowledge of the negative health affects of the newly discovered element; many people actually
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The artist of the work‚ The Two Fridas‚ is Frida Kahlo who was best known for her self portraits. This piece was finished in Paris‚ France in 1939. It is displayed in the Gallery Museum Modern Art in Mexico City‚ Mexico. To make this self portrait Frida used canvas and her technique was oils. When a viewer would like upon this piece‚ they would see two women sitting side by side. The onlooker may come to the assumption that these two women are either identical twins or sisters. In this artwork there
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She does this in her painting Two Fridas by showing herself identically except for her what she is wearing. On the left side‚ she is wearing a typical European style dress‚ while on the right side she is wearing a dress that was more typically seen in Mexico. By doing this she is representing
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part of the 20th century female artists such as Maria Izquierdo‚ Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Catlett inspired the new Mexica revolution of art.
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Frida Kahlo is often hailed as the most well-known and influential woman artist of all time‚ yet few know of her actual impact on society. While her rise to fame can be attributed to the feminist movement of the 1970s‚ it is important to acknowledge the influence that her artwork had on modern feminism (Biography.com). Frida Kahlo defied traditional female gender roles through her art by emphasizing the physicality of the female body without eroticizing it and by expressing gender fluidity in her
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Frida is shown living her life in Mexico in pain but not letting anyone be aware of it. She was known for wearing long native dresses to hide her scars and braces from the accident (Nyman‚ 2016). In Across the Universe when Max went through the process
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rain from the heavens. All around her the earth is eroding and all life has forsaken her. But there is hope because as one’s eyes are drawn completely upward they can see a crystal blue sky. This piece reveals an emotionally disturbed and vulnerable Frida. Her distress seems to have consumed and overwhelmed her but there might be some nuances of hope she tucks
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Straight Outta Compton is considered to be one of most impactful and noteworthy films of 2015. Directed by F. Gary Gray‚ this superb biopic of the infamous rap group N.W.A. (N*ggaz Wit Attitudes)‚ captures the lives of N.W.A‚ as well as their rise to rap supremacy. This film also displays many of the issues that occurred in the late 80’s‚ early 90’s era such as racial injustice‚ police brutality‚ and gang violence. Sad to say‚ many of the issues presented in the film are still very prevalent today
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