Text 10- Diego (Gender, culture)

This book is a narration told by Diego himself of how he began to become interested in art. He describes this process as he is growing up. He then says a few things about when he was older and goes on to describe some of civil rights views.

Bibliography: Winter, Jeanette, and Jonah Winter. Diego: In English and Spanish. New York: Knopf, 1991. Print.

I used Frida Kahlo as one of the options for gender and using Diego Rivera as a male option is not a bad idea. I often believe that it is important to talk about women because I believe we are overlooked in many areas, but now I'm doing the same with males. It's also not a bad idea because they were married and I believe it would be interesting to compare both. It is also not very common to be an artist as a male in a macho world (also known as Mexico) but Diego finds a way to fight this and show that his paintings go beyond that. He sends civil rights messages through his hands and through his drawings and he didn't care what others thought. This sends a cultural message at the same time talking about the most famous and acclaimed mural artist of Mexico.