Painting Description - Frida Kahlo

   In this post we’ll talk about one of Frida Kahlo’s paintings. The picture is called Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird.

   This picture was made in 1940 by Frida Kahlo. It is a self-portrait of Frida wearing a necklace of thorn and a hummingbird. She’s surrounded by large green leaves, a monkey and a black cat. The picture is a symbol of Frida herself. It expresses pain, that’s why the hummingbird, which is always colorful, is black and lifeless.

Art In Churches

This year we learned about lots of types of arts. One of them was the Art in Churches.

Our class went to three types of Churches to see the paintings on the walls and on the roof. Of course that not all of them had paintings on those places. One of the churches had wood carvings of saints and angels, and it had massive wood boards with passages from the Bible. Another church had lots of beautiful paintings on the walls and on the roof. The other church had paintings too, but those ones were older and in a bad condition. Despite the bad condition, it was a pretty church too.

Short Biography-

   In this post we’re going to tell the history of Fernanda’s father,  Ronaudo.

   

   Ronaudo Nonato dos Santos was born in 1969, October 18, in Tauá,Ceará- Fortaleza.He started to work when he was 7 , helping weeding his father’s lands. He grew up with 15 brothers and sisters and with the right of many jokes and pranks during childhood.

   

    When he was 16 he moved to São Paulo searching for better conditions and a better job. He met his other side of the orange, that coincidently was from Tauá in Ceará, too. They married and had my sister , which is almost 21 now; and 7 years later they had Fernanda and her brother, Gustavo, that are 14 now.

     About Ronaudo, now he is a merchant with his wife and his older daughter and his family live in São José do Rio Preto. He is a very happy man.

Our Talks

   Our Talks is a particular event that happens in our school. It’s based on TED Talks but is done by the students of first and second years of high school. They have 5 to 10 minutes to talk about something according to the theme. For example, this year the theme was the culture of peace.

    

They talked about education, respect, and a lot of other things. There was this girl that talked about education, how it’s being applied (in Brazil) and how it should be applied. There were two girls that talked about education for girls that do not have education yet. A boy talked about the “culture” of calling people homophobic, racist, fascist, Nazi or other things, just because of what they think or something that they say.

  

If you want to see a TED Talk click the link down below:

https://www.ted.com/