1. Frida Kahlo

2. Biografía 1907 Born in Coyoacán (suburb of Mexico City)
Told people she was born in 1910-year of the Mexican Revolution
Father was a painter
At the age of six contracted polio
Dreamed of becoming a doctor and gaining fame
1925 Bus accident
Physical
Physiological

3. Biografía cont. Had nothing to do and began to paint out of boredom
After recovering from her accident she enrolled in the National Prepatory School where she met Diego Rivera
1929 Married Rivera
20 year age difference
1930 traveled to United States
1933 Returned to Mexico

4. Biografía cont. Rocky marriage 1936-1937 1939 divorced from Rivera
Infidelity
Leon Trotsky
Trotsky
Lenin’s friend
‘Enemy’ of Stalin
Expelled from many countries
Invited to Mexico
1939 divorced from Rivera
1940 re-married
Only had one exhibition in Mexico in 1953
Died in la casa azul in 1954

6. Diego Rivera 1886-1957 Born in Guanajuato, Mexico
Started taking night classes for drawing and painting classes when he was ten years old
At age 12 enrolled full time
Had his first exhibition in 1906
Traveled around Europe
Spent time in Paris
At the start of WWI, and the Mexican Revolution
1921 Returned to Mexico
1922 Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors
1922 Mexican Communist Party
Active in the Soviet Revolution
See painting The Agitator

8. Biografía cont.
When he returned from Europe began collaborating with other Mexican artists
Muralismo
Many of his paintings show his political beliefs
1930 painted murals for the Stock Exchange and California School of Fine Art
As well as opened an exhibit at MoMA in NY
1955 Married his agent after death of his third wife
1957 Died

9. Obras de Frida The Accident 1926 Self Portrait 1929
Frida and Diego 1931
Self Portrait (dedicated to Trotsky) 1937
The Two Fridas 1939
Self Portrait 1941
The Wounded Deer 1946

17. Obras de Diego 1907 Self Portrait 1928 The Arsenal
Shows the workers movement
1933 Man at the Crossroads
Rockefeller center (removed because of Lenin image)
1948 Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park

20. La Guerilla (Zapata’s Landscape) 1915

21. Creation 1922

29. El Muralismo El muralismo mexicano
[1] ‘El muralismo mexicano nació a finales de la década de 1920, [2] cuando el gobierno decidió poner a disposición de los artistas el espacio mural de los edificios públicos. [3] Fue así que los pintores más entusiasmados por una revolución social, sobre todo Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco y David Alfaro Siqueiros…Sus temas eran la vida del mexicano común, sus valores y costumbres y la lucha social’

30. Otras muralistas Jose Clemente Orozco David Alfaro Siquieros
1932 The Epic of American Civilization 24 panels
Aztec Warriors (panel 4)
Symbols of Nationalism (panel 19)
Dartmouth College
David Alfaro Siquieros
1957 Museum of National History
From Porfiriato to the Revolution