To start the year celebrating Hispanic Heritage month, 5th graders are learning about the art and life of artist Frida Kahlo. I think that Frida's life is truly inspirational and that the students really gravitated to her story. She had to overcome a lot in her young life, health wise, and if it wasn't for her horrible accident when she was 18 and spending months bedridden she may have never began painting to become the artist that the world knows today.
From darkness, comes light.
Students are in the brainstorming and sketching phase of this project but next week will begin to create their own Frida portraits being sure to exaggerate the features that people recognize her by: her eyebrows, the flowers in her hair, her bright colored clothing, and her pets.
More pics to come next week!
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