D.R.

Diego Rivera
Married to Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera was a world-famous Mexican artist. He exposed the social class of Mexico, in all its beauty and everyday life. He uses vibrant colors and details to each piece to expose the harsh reality and often offensive. His artwork inspires me for many reasons. The first is that i grew up with my parents loving his art. They hung alot of his pieces up in our house, and from there is where i first came in counter with him. The second is that he paints as if he were a voice for the people. he shows the beauty in the simplicity of standing in a custom dress or children breaking a pinata. He exposes his work to give value to the social class that is seen in Mexico as inferior. He encourages people to stand up against themselves, espcialy against the injustice and neglect by the authorities and division of social class.In addition, he captures the regular activities of the Mexican culture, which provokes familiar and warm memories for myself.

FK.

Frida Kahlo
By far, my favorite artist is Frida Kahlo. She is an artist I am fasinated by her akward and often disturbing pieces of art.She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences that include Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that express her own pain symbolically and her sexuality. After reading her biography and even visiting her house in Mexico City, i found it very admirable that after being severly hurt by a tragic bus accident, she still managed to paint and create beautiful work on her bed. She never gave up or stopped painting even when her marriage was failing and her health deteiorating. One of her art pieces connects with the idea of mother earth. It is my favorite painting, although i have no idea as to why or how i am so attracted to it. I love the colors and especially the fact that she respects and cherishes or earth. I admire Frida Kahlo because she is a strong, independant woman woh exposed beauty by any means and the meaning of life.







Ron Arad
How would you like a wavelike chair? Well, graphic designer Ron Arad would be able to design it for you. He is one big package,industrial designer, artist and architect. His work in which i was particularly intrigued by was his furniture he made. I loved his unique and complicated designs for what it seems as a heap of metal, is in fact a chair. Such detail is put into his work that it is indeed so beautiful you kinda dont want to sit on it. A silver metal chair is shaped like a curve and is long enough for one to lounge on. I ask myself would i rather buy it to appreciate as art or use as a really cool chair? I love interesting looking furniture and his type of design is right up my alley. The designs range from simple shapes to cut in circles as base. I was able to appreciate his work because i found it very amazing as to how one person can not only design such a piece, but be able to physically construct it. When i get my own place hopefully i can get some pretty cool stuff that can be or resemble his work.

LACMA & P.P.

Over the weekend, I went to LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) were i encountered various types of art pieces from ancient European to temporary art. It was very interesting observing the variation of the wide range of paintings. I especially enjoyed the section of the museum that contained art work from Pablo Picasso. I was quite aware of who he was and his type of pieces he made, but i had never stopped to notice the details of his work. What stood at the most in my head was the way he painted figures that resembled a human face but was awkwardly distorted. The physical features of the face were placed in opposite areas of the face and shapes and lines were exaggerated.I couldn't believe someone could come up with this! I couldn't help to wonder if he was either on something or was 'out-there' while producing his art pieces.All the while, his work is very colorful and expressive, exposing the beauty of humans in whatever form or shape.His work is abstract, allowing the viewer to make of his art as he/she choose to. I interpreted his work as a form of comedy and expression, allowing us to see every person as a perfectly imperfect person and that we are all alike with no definition of the norm or awkward. After leaving the museum, his works of art, those especially of humans, stood in my head and contributed to stepping out of the box when observing things.