Diego Rivera
Essays

Frida Kahlo: The life and work of a primitivist and an early postmodernist in the history of Mexican art and the history of female artists

Multicultural Newsletter What is Multicultural Literacy? Approaching the subject of multicultural literacy for the first time a student might think it has to do with getting minorities to become literate – to be able to read and write in English or in their native language. That would be wrong, albeit it is a good goal in terms of bringing all students up to speed in communication skills. What is important to remember about multicultural literacy is that by the year 2020, an estimated fifty percent of the student population in American public schools will belong "…to an economic, ethnic, racial, religious, and/or social class minority" (Stevens, et al, 2011, p. 32). Teachers and counselors must be fully knowledgeable vis-à-vis the culturally relevant issues that are present when the classroom is diverse, as it clearly is becoming today and will continue to be in the near future as well.

The Detroit Institute of Arts is one of the most respectable art museums in the US. A visit here will leave a long lasting impression. The experience will take the visitor through a wide range of ages and art styles, from the ancient arts to the contemporary, all over the world.

Mexico is a country with a long and rich cultural heritage and history. Mexico has been a country for much longer than the United States has been a country, and as those with some knowledge of American history know,…

As long as there has been art there has been public art. But this does not mean that public art has always meant the same thing to the people who made it or the community that it was made for.

Marxism: Principal Ideology in Russian Constructivism and Mexican Mural Movement

Frida Kahlo- surrealist painter, cross- dresser, enthusiastic drinker and lover, inspiration for one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, Diego Rivera, icon, legend, communist activist and I know the list can…

If it can be said that a bomb is free when it explodes, Frida Kahlo was most free when the explosive power of her artistry allowed her to be herself. She was born in 1907, just a few years before the 1910 revolution in…

Ana Mendieta's "Rape Scene" (1973) and the Idea of Public Art

Pre-Hispanic art works are seldom recognized as works of art; instead, they are often grouped as archeological remnants. This explains why you find most pre-Hispanic art pieces in historic and anthropology museums,…