Archive for the ‘Mexico’ Category

Frida Kahlo

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico's most famous artists and also something of a feminist icon, celebrated for her passionate indomitability in the face of life's trials. She's best known for her daring self-portraits depicting the suffering she experienced in her personal life. As a child Kahlo had polio; at ...

Diego Rivera

Friday, November 30th, 2007

    Painter, muralist. Born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico. Diego Rivera is now thought to be one of the leading artists of the twentieth century, Rivera began drawing as a child. He studied art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts while in his teens and then traveled ...