Mi Receta
Mi Frida es Donald Trump
For this project was studied Frida Kalos life including the struggles she went through that led her to her eventual fame and success. After that, we created a Frida inspired painting. We were instructed to pick a celebrity and a Frida painting to replicate. After we created the art, we wrote about it in Spanish comparing it to the Frida painting and describing how the two are connected and what representations we made between our painting and the Frida painting.
Mi Frida es Donald Trump
Por Amelia O’Toole
Mi Frida se llama Donald Trump. Él nació en 1946, en la ciudad de Nueva York. Él vivió en Nueva York por 50 años. Mientras vivía en Nueva York, él empezó un negocio. El negocio es por hoteles y se llama Trump Towers. Trump empezó el negocio con un pequeño préstamo de $1,000,000. Él era muy triste porque no era bastante
dinero. Es por eso que él está llorando en la pintura de
mi frida. En el original pintura, había hojasatrás de
Frida porque ahora hay dinero mezclado con las hojas.
Luego en 2016 él fue elegido el presidente de los
Estados Unidos. Porquees presidente, él sabe muchos
hombres importantes. Él tiene dos hombres favoritos
quese llaman Pence y Putin.En mi frida son los
botonesen en sus hombros. La pintura de Frida Kahlo
que me inspiraba tiene un mono en laizquierda y un
gato en la derecha. Pence estáen el lugar del mono
mientras Putin Putin es el gato. Porque, sobre todo,
también, Trump amalas paredes yes por qué hay uno
detrás de él. Trump quiere poner un pared entre
nosotros y México. Aunqueél estás teniendo un tiempo
muy difícil para que esto suceda. Las rajaduras en la
paredrepresenta la lucha.
Project reflection
Why do you think Frida Kahlo painted so many autobiographical paintings of herself?
To me, Frida Kahlo didn't have many outlets that she could turn to, in order to release her emotions. I believe that her paintings, especially the ones depicting her, were the only way she felt she could express her story and what she was going through.
How do you feel that your image came out?
I think that I mentioned this in a way putting the way that I felt about my person into my painting. I believe that the final product came out very nice. I was able to work on it over the weekend and put my best product on display.
Did you end up with the image you thought you were going to?
I did end up with the Frida painting that I wanted since I knew what aspects I wanted to put into my painting I looked for Frida paintings that I could use for layout and still display all of the elements that related to Trump. Although I did change some of my original concepts (painting Pence and Putin sitting on trumps shoulders), I was still able to get all the main topics that I wanted to be conveyed onto a canvas.
What do you think of Frida and her art now that you know more about her?
I think that her art is very melancholy it holds a sorrowful and inspirational story of love and loss and the painting style is obviously very good, but the emotion that she was able to capture in her work was the rare aspect to her art. Every picture conveys some feeling that Frida was experiencing and I think that's very powerful.
El nuevo Houdini
For this project, we read a book titled El nuevo Houdini. This book was about a boy who used his father's car without permission while his parents were on vacation. He got into many different predicaments thought the book and had to find solutions. in the end, he believes that he gets away with it. and then his dad gets a ticket in the mail of his sone in the car with a girl driving. once we were finished reading the book we were each assigned chapter and had to make a short movie about what happened in that chapter in Spanish.
Dia de los Muertos
Dia de Los Muertos is a Spanish holiday. It is celebrated the night of November first and is in honor of people who have passed on. They use this holiday to remember there loved ones that have passed on. it is a very old and important wart of there culture. The Durango Arts Center hosted a Dia de Los Muertos event. this even encompassed many shrines of and Spanish traditional objects. They also had an authentic dance. Our class created obituereas and calavaras for the event.
