Analysis: La Plaza De España

The Prince of Los Cocuyos, better known as Richard Blanco, is a successful and accomplished author and engineer, being the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow; more importantly, Richard Blanco came to the United States and a child and an immigrant, much like I did. As I read The Prince of LOS

What Frank Romero tries to do in this mural is show others who do not live in the city what Los Angeles is known for. But at the time, the painting was used for the Olympics, so

Diego Rivera fuses the stress of blue-collar workers and the beauty of colors to create a fresco piece that demonstrates America’s center of industry, Detroit. All of the details in the piece, Detroit Industry, have a purpose, down to the colors that are chosen. This artwork of his is admired by many and illustrates a strong message about the flow of the factories and the relationship between technology and manufacturing (Smith). Rivera’s life started out in the year of 1886, in Guanajuato City, located in Central Mexico.

However, the style of the architecture is very similar. “The Pueblo and the Spanish cultures shared and adapted construction techniques and design.” (New Mexico Art Museum) Below is an image of a building in Taos Pueblo and Castillo de San Marcos. You can see similarities of this structure and the Castillo de San

The initial construction of the Great Mosque, known as the crowning achievement of Islamic art and architecture, initiated the effort. (“The Art of the Umayyad Period in Spain”). Other important architectural works included Alhambra in

To say Pedro Gonzalez was just a man of influence to the Mexican people would be an understatement. But to understand his impact on his community and across the southwestern portion of the United States, one must understand his background. Pedro Gonzalez’s story starts out like so many others growing up in the time of revolution. Pedro grew up in a small town in Mexico and went to fight in the Mexican Revolution in 1910 as a telegraph operator for Pancho Villa. During his time of service, he had run into some trouble including being suspected of being a traitor and almost getting himself killed.

The problem facing the city of El Paso was the erection of the statue celebrating the conquistador Don Juan de Oñate. The original news of the statue brought hope and excitement to the city of El Paso, city council members thought that the statue was a great idea; it would bring in more tourism to their city and in turn help the economy. Since El Paso was the 10th poorest city in America at the time, they needed something to help. The statue of Oñate was just one of a twelve piece project, known as the XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest, created by John Houser. The project was intended to honor the history of El Paso and the people and culture of the city as well.

Diego Rivera is one of the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century, where his powerful and inspirational images became part of the collective language of Mexico, the dreams and spirit of the people. His work revolved around social inequality, Mexico’s rich history and the relationship between individuals and their indigenous roots. Rivera reintroduced fresco painting into modern art and architecture in the 1930’s, where his murals can be found on the walls of universities and public buildings throughout Mexico that vary from Mexico’s pre-Columbian origins, the Mexican Revolution and post-Revolutionary era from the 1920’s to 1935. He created many panoramic portrayals that reflected the daily lives and struggles of the working

On July 21, 2015, I had the opportunity to take a trip down to “The Great Wall of Los Angeles”. I was amazed to see the creativity and the empowerment of the art. The wall is a mural designed by Judith Baca, and a group of community youth from diverse ethnical backgrounds. The mural paints the history of California through different eras; it starts with colonialism and makes its way to the Chicano Movement of the 1960s.

Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray.” The exhibit is located in the “Hans Sumpf Gallery of Mexican Art.” I found the quite serenity of the room’s ambiance extremely pleasurable. Although, the light was not adequate for my taste. The journey started in the center room of the exhibit and right off the bat, I fell in love with the picture of the very first painting that we came across.

As the world has been climbing further into the future, The United States lead the way, as their vast improvements in electricity, mechanics, and manufacturing have the rest of the world nipping at their heels. The World Fair of 1893 was held in Chicago, Illinois and was known as the Columbian Exposition, commemorating the 400 year anniversary of Columbus’ landing on American soil. They used one of the most technologically advanced cities in the United States to show how far they had come. Everything about the Columbian Exposition blew the minds of the 300,000 plus individuals that attended it. Most of this had to do with electricity and the major milestones it had passed such as the push of a button controlling something huge and

John Singer Sargent was born on the 12th of January of 1856 in Florence, Italy. Sargent was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a skilled landscape painter and watercolorist. Sargent was given little schooling. As a result of his “Baedeker education,” he learned Italian, French, and German. He studied geography, arithmetic, reading, and other restraint under his father’s coaching.

Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo: Direct contribution to the protection of human rights? During Argentina’s military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983, the Argentine human rights movement emerged. This movement responded to cruel human rights abuses by the government during the military junta: the abduction, torture, and disappearance of tens of thousands of citizens (Brysk, 1). Starting in 1975, when Isabel Martínez Perón had already been established as the new President of the country after her husband died in 1974, people first started disappearing. Most of them were common laborers in their thirties, although some were children or even senior citizens, teachers, journalists, priests and many lawyers (Navarro 1989:245).

Museum Paper Assignment “Which piece would be my favorite in here?” It was a question that I asked myself while walking into a Philadelphia Museum of Art. For what I have known about Philadelphia Museum of Art, it is one of the largest and age-old museums in the United States. I heard a lot by friends and teachers that this museum would be a great place for me to stop by in order to observe, to learn and understand more about beautiful arts that were created by many talented artists, histories of Philadelphia, the United States and the world. Due to the assignment, I finally had an opportunity to visit the museum.

The late architect, Daniel Burnham, worked to create the iconic world fair, revive the love for classical architecture, and inspire architects to solve feats of building. Although he was already well established by the time he was contracted to design the World Fair, it hadn’t launched him to the position he would have hence forth. The project was an insane feat, especially with the increasingly limited time in which it was to be completed (the fair committees did not know where to host the Fair). Eventually, he would complete the exhibition despite his business partner John Root dying and two of his chief architects being chronically ill (127-140).