Mexican Fine Arts

The nonutilitarian arts, arts concerned primarily with the creation of beauty, including dance, painting, photography, and sculpture, and created by the people of Mexico.

Resources in this category:

Day of the Dead: Dia de los muertos
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/

The Day of the Dead is one of Mexico’s most important and ancient holidays, and this site has a wealth of information about it. You can read up on the three-day festival’s history and traditions, find recipes and a crafts guide, view photos of the celebration, and much more. Articles are taken from the Arizona Republic newspaper.

Frida by Kahlo
http://www.fbuch.com/fridaby.htm

Mexican artist and icon Frida Kahlo’s paintings were highly autobiographical, and this site integrates them into a chronology of her life. The times, culture, and people of her life are discussed in relation to her paintings. Also contains links to similar information about two other iconic figures in Kahlo’s life, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky.

The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/

This site examines the life, art, and cultural impact of Mexican painter Friday Kahlo. You can browse timelines and essays discussing the events and people in her life; examine some of her most famous paintings with an interactive pointer that explains its history and symbols; and read essays reflecting on her artistic and cultural legacy. This site was originally launched as a companion to a biography first aired on PBS in 2005.

Mexico Ilustrado: Los murales mexicanos
http://www.spin.com.mx/ilustrado/murales/

Here you will find background information and images from Mexico’s best-known artists: the muralistas. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquieros are profiled with a number of their most famous works; also features historical background about the political and social context in which this movement and its artists arose. In Spanish.