In Dia de Los Muertos there are calaveras as well as other beautiful pieces put into shrines for the people who have passed away. In each family they make sugar skulls and calaveras and place candles around the shrine. Calaveras are used for the deceased family member to enjoy.
I do think I was successful because I love to draw and my calavera turned out very beautiful. I did mine on Lana Del Rey because she is my favorite artist.
I do think I was successful because I love to draw and my calavera turned out very beautiful. I did mine on Lana Del Rey because she is my favorite artist.
Lana Del Rey-Lana Del Frida
For this project I had to chose someone I admired and paint them in a Frida Kahlo portrait painting with a 300 word biography. The Frida painting that I chose was “Roots.”
Lana Del Rey nació en ciudad de Nueva York en 1986. Su nombre de nacimiento es Elizabeth Woolridge Grant. Ella creció en Lake Placid. A la edad de 15, ella fue enviada a una escuela internada en Connecticut. A la edad de 18 ella mudó a Ciudad de Nueva York. Ella estudió metafísica a la universidad de Fordham. Es cuando comenzó su carrera musical. Ella comenzó actuación en muchos clubes alrededor de la ciudad. Ella representó con muchos nombres diferentes como Lizzy Grant, Sparkle Jump Rope Queen y The Phenomena. Ella siempre cantaba pero nunca tenía idea de una progresión de su carrera. Cuando tenía 20 años, firmó un contrato por $10,000 por una grabación. Compró un caravana para salir de la ciudad. Ella comenzó a beber con 15 años. Después de que su primer álbum no tenía éxito, ella comenzó a trabajar en el servicio de la comunidad. Ella decidió cambiar su nombre artístico a Lana Del Rey en Octubre de 2011. Ella firmó un contrato discográfico con Interscope Records y Polydor. En Junio de 2011 ella lanzó la canción “Video Games,” con un video. Fue un enorme éxito. Tenía más de 20 millones de visitas de Youtube en los primeros 5 meses. Ella describe su estilo como Gangster Nancy Sinatra. Ella pasó mucho tiempo en Miami hablando español con sus amigos de Cuba. Esto inspiró el cambio de nombre. Su nombre le recuerda del glamour de la costa. Ella tiene la palabra “el paraíso” tatuado en la mano. Ella crea collages de video. A ella le gusta sacar fotos y grabar videos y películas. Sus videos de música “Video Games” y “Carmen” son hechos y son muy buenos. Ella hace referencia a Tennessee Williams, Walt Whitman, y Vladimir Nabokov en sus letras. Ella es también un modelo. Dice que Lana Del Rey tiene $8 millones.
- I think that reason Frida Kahlo painted so many auto-biographical paintings of herself because Kahlo’s subject matter was deeply personal rather than humorous or intellectual. I think that she used her personal tragedies - physical and psychological - to create images that were raw and visually disturbing. I also believe that a lot of her art portrays the struggle she had with her national identity and the beliefs of her husband and the traditional Mexican woman and wife.
- I feel like my image came out very well. The background of Frida’s portrait was more like rocks and slight canyons whereas I changed mine to be more of an earthy pattern ground. The portrait came out to look a lot like Lana Del Rey but I incorporated a lot of Frida’s feature to show a resemblance between the two people. The plants were to show growth and well being, something that both Frida and Lana struggled/struggle with. As I continued to paint it all seemed to come together and look nicer than I had expected.
- When I first came up with my project outline I didn’t expect to chose that painting. I was going to do a more common art piece by Kahlo, but when I did a little more thinking and relating the two artists, this painting seemed to fit best. As I began to paint, the background was not coming together as I had planned. I was unable to achieve the same sort of look with acrylic paints as Frida did with Oil. My second thought was to make it seem more like earthy dirt. At first I was going to do my painting as similar as possible but I started to find ways to incorporate Lana’s style into the piece. This included a flower crown as well as the dress and nails. I drew in the unibrow to make the resemblance clear.
- If I were to start my project again I would take more time to touch up the sky and make the ground look like slight cracks are running between each different patch of ground. I would make the inside of Lana’s chest more square and I would depict a place the vines were somewhat growing as well as putting more detail into the vines. I think what would make the art piece super cool would be some texture like oil paints.
"Roots" 1943 by Frida Kahlo
Apple Empanadas
INGREDIENTES
3 manzanas de granny smith
½ media taza confectioners' azucar
½ jugo de limon
¼cucharadita de canela molida
2 ½ tazas de harina para todo uso
1 cuchara de sopa azucar
1 taza de mantequilla fría salada
½ taza de agua helada
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 F.
Corta la manzana en ¼ pedazo
Poner la manzana en un olla con el azucar, el jugo de limon y canela.
Cocinar la manzana fuego medio 12 minutos, destapado, stirring occasionally.
Cuela and discard the liquid.
Set aside to cool for 30 minutes.
Dough:
combine flour and sugar