Week 5

This past week in Latin American Civilization we have been starting to work on our final projects. I’m very excited to start this new final project. It’s interesting to look at current events in Latin America. All year we have been studying the past and as we approach the 20^th century in the lecture portion of the class everything that we have learned seems to be coming together. At the same time, it also makes it seem like the “past” isn’t so far away. As we draw closer to meeting up with current events the time when we studied the Mexica empire doesn’t seem as long ago.

Additionally, I know that we are getting to the portion of the semester where we will talk about Diego Rivera and possibly his relationship with Frida Kahlo. I personally am a big fan of both artists but I do tend to favor Kahlo. I love to see the art that came out of Latin America in that period and I’m very excited to get to a portion of the class in which we can look at that topic. When we start to study Diego Rivera we will also go to the Detroit Institute of Art. I think it will be interesting to actually see what we’re studying as this past year it felt a little difficult to connect the history that we were hearing to reality.