Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo

Rivera&Kahlo.pptx

Pan-American Unity Mural

Credit: Dorothy Goldner Collection. Courtesy of the J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University

rivera.mp4

Home movie Detroit Institute of Arts

Credit: Kathi Cambiano

RiveraDetroit.mov

If you have decided to create a mural this is an excellent resource for your lesson plan. Community Public Art guide, Techniques of Community Murals http://www.cpag.net/guide/2/2_pages/2.htm
If you want students to identify Rivera’s artistic style and to discuss the cultural and political themes in his work, see this lesson plan from Art to Go at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Diego Rivera: A Mexican Hero and His Culture https://www.clevelandart.org/sites/default/files/documents/lesson-plans/cma_lesson_atg_diegorivera.pdf

Rivera and Kahlo artworks in the Bay Area. (pdf)
Scholastic Art, "Mexican Muralists- Working with Narrative Art" Volume 38 #5, March 2008. Please note this site is restricted to subscribers only. www.scholastic.com/art
For movies clips of Frida and Diego together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou0EOcpdJm4 (3-1/2 minutes) called “La Real Frida Kahlo”.