Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)• Involved in a bus accident at age 18 which

caused her problems the rest of her life• Art influenced by pain, health problems, and

love• Communist• Married to Diego Rivera 2 times• Why did she paint so many self-portraits?-• “I paint self-portraits because I am the person

that I know best. I paint my own reality.”

The Broken Column

The Two Fridas

Diego en mi pensamiento

Fernando Botero (1932- present)

• Colombian painter, sculptor, sketch artist• His works are both a political and

humorous commentary on life• Characteristics- inflated, exaggerated

human (and other) figures• “In art, as long as you have ideas and

think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.”

Los músicos

Familias

• Botero

BartolomÉ Murillo

Francisco De Zurbarán

David Alfaro Siqueiros