ugly/

awful

 feo/a

 handsome/

pretty/

nice

 guapo/a

 friendly/

pleasant

 simpático/a

 shy

 timido/a

 quiet/

in peace

 tranquilo/a

Frida Kahlo 

 Frida Kahlo

The Mexican painter with the unibrow in the 1920s-1950s

 painter

 el/la pintor/a

 self-portrait

 el autorretrato

 fantastic

 fantástico/a

noun

 element

 el elemento

 Social Realist Movement

Realismo Social

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

 art

 arte

*Usu. male when singular, female when plural

-El arte = Art

-Las bellas artes = The fine arts

 popular

popular

surrealist/

surrealistic

surrealista

Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement. It proposed that the Enlightenment—the influential 17th- and 18th-century intellectual movement that championed reason and individualism—had suppressed the superior qualities of the irrational, unconscious mind.

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the Mexican mural movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals. He had a volatile marriage with fellow Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

a

(the personal a)

The personal "a" in Spanish does not directly translate into English, but it is needed when the object of the sentence is a person or people.  Examples of the preposition "a":

-Debes conocer a Ricardo. 
-You should meet Ricardo. 

-Beso a mi mamá cada mañana.

-I kiss my mom every morning.

-Voy a ver a la doctora esta tarde. 

-I'm going to see the doctor this afternoon.

*The personal "a" before the definite article "el" becomes "al" as in the following statement: 

-Conocemos bien al presidente de los Estados Unidos. 

-We know the president of the United States well.