Rivera/Kahlo Movies

I thought the choice of showing the short movie about Diego Rivera prior to seeing the full length movie about Frida Kaho was a great combination. During the first movie we got to see the importance of his work, then in the second movie we get to see an actor actualoly "creating" the works and how it related to her life and her interaction with him. The two of them had such completely different choices of mediums as well as the ideas they were trying to portray, but they both wanted to use a style that exemplified their Mexican heritage. I wish we had the time to movies like these and the previous one on VIncent van Gogh for all the artists we are studying. It seems to make everything more clear when we talk about the various things in class and can relate them back to what we learned about the artists themselves.