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Spanish Student Sample  Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter who depicted mostly self-portraits that pressed her life-long struggle with identity. According to a biography titled __Kahlo__, she was born in 1907 and was of German, Jewish, Spanish, and Mexican indigenous decent. She contracted polio as a small child, for this reason, she struggled with a limp her entire life and rarely bared her legs. Another tragedy of Frida's life was that she was in a bus accident when she was 18 years old in which she broke her spine, collar bone and pelvis. This bus accident was the reason Frida not only suffered chronic pain, but was unable to bear children. Many of Frida's artworks are framed around themes of pain and suffering as well as her multiple backgrounds and how she formed identity. Frida was married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, whom she adored and whose quality of artwork she aspired to create. After suffering during her later years of life from an amputated leg and bronchopheumonia, Frida died on July 13, 1954. Today, her childhood home "La casa azul" is a museum where you can see many of Frida's most famous works of art in Coyoacan, Mexico (Lozano).

Listen to the Voki to hear about Frida Kahlo's "Las dos Fridas" (The Two Fridas)media type="custom" key="5822823"

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Latin Student Sample Hercules the Demi-God ** The Greeks considered Herakles (or Hercules) the greatest of heroes. He personified the spread of the Greek culture and was thought to be the strongest man on earth with a supreme self-confidence which only great physical strength can give. He was so strong that the only way in which he could be defeated was by interference from a supernatural force. Zeus was his father and Alcmena was his mortal mother. He married Megara and had 3 sons. However one day Hera, being the jealous wife of Zeus, made Herakles go mad and kill his wife and sons, only to awaken from his insanity and realize what he had done. To atone for his atrocities Herakles agreed to perform 12 Labors ordered by King Eurytheus. The artifacts below depictions of the different labors performed by Hercules.

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 **T17.5 HERAKLES & THE CUP-BOAT OF HELIOS** Museum Collection: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia Catalogue Number: St Petersburg PAV8 Beazley Archive Number: 230341 Ware: Attic Red Figure Shape: Pelike Painter: Name vase of the Eleusinian Painter Date: ca. 350 BC Period: Late Classical **SUMMARY** Herakles rides across the sea in the cup-boat of Helios. This is the boat which the sun-god uses to sail round the river Okeanos at night in the west to his place of rising in the east. This is a red figure vase artifact which depicts Hercules wearing the Nemean lion skin as a cloak signifiying his first successful labor. After choking the fierce lion with his bare hands and threatening it with his mythical club, Hercules forever will be seen wearing this skin as his symbol of immense strength. He appears strong and invincible in this red figure art.

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[|Hercules] stealing the golden apples from the Garden of the [|Hesperides]. Detail of The Twelve Labours Roman mosaic from Liria (Valencia, Spain). Flintstone. First half of the 3rd century. In the National Archaeological Museum of Spain (Madrid).

This mosaic from Spain depicts Hercules' 11th labor which was the Golden Apples of Hesperides. It was considered to be the most difficult of all the labors since the Garden of Hesperides was difficult to find. The mosaic shows Hercules, wearing his lion cloak, carrying his olive club and seizing the golden apples. He appears larger than humanly possible as he reaches for the apples as the Hesperide women cower in fear of his wrath.

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Louvre E 701Main panel: Hercules and KerberosPhotograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Musée du Louvre ===This black figure vase from the Louvre shows the 12th and final Labor of Hercules considered to be the most difficult. Hercules was to enter the Underworld and kidnap the fierce 3-headed beast Cerberus who guards the entrance to the Underworld. Cerberus had 3 heads of wild dogs, a serpent's tail and snake heads all over his back. This artifact shows Hercules again wearing his lion skin and carrying his olive tree club. Cerberus the dog shows anger and fierceness. Hercules, on the other hand, appears smaller and more mortal-like than other depictions of him throughout Classical times.===

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German Student Sample  German Propaganda Art

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/nsv.jpg

This poster advertises the Nazi charity, the NSV. The text translates: "Health, child protection, fighting poverty, aiding travellers, community, helping mothers: These are the tasks of the National Socialist People's Charity. Become a member!" This poster was created in the 1930's to convey the message that the Nazi party is good for Germany. It appeals not only to the patriotic side of the German citizen, but also appeals to one's sense of civic duty. The reason this piece of art was selected is because of it's irony. The poster portrays the Nazi party as a political entity that cares about it's citizens, but at the same time, imprisoned and murdered countless innocent people. I'm sure the message was successful in conveying it's message to a point, but the aura of fear at the time most certainly had a hand in things too.