This is Frida Kahlo!!!! A Mexican Artist.One artist that has grabbed my attention is Frida Kahlo. Born on July 16,1907, in Mexico. After an accident on a bus on September 17,1925, which caused her ribs, back, pelvis and collarbone to break, she began to paint self-portraits. She did this while in bed, in order to help pay for all of her medical bills. Although she was in bed for most of her lifetime, recovering from surgeries in a plaster body-cast, she continued with her life as an artist. Later on she started to walk again after a year of rest. She met her husband Diego Rivera and went to New York for sometime. Frida Kahlo didn't like New York at all because it was so different from Mexico. She was living in an apartment which usually caused her to see many things, which she painted eventually.
I like this piece because it shows how the United States of America is different from Mexico. And I also like the fact that she saw this when she was taking a bath, and ended up painting something she saw in her head.
This is also another piece showing New York, and in the middle you can see Frida Kahlo's dress. The buildings in the back cover the entire background, which made me understand that New York City has many people living there.
This painting has Frida and her husband being held by a lady, half light green (good) and the other half dark brown (bad). I think this painting shows the child Frida always wanted, and how that baby was going to have both Frida and Diego's DNA. But for some reason that baby was never going to be born and there was something, someone holding the baby back from being born. That someone, I think, is the face behind Frida.
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Actually, none of Frida's letters imply that she wanted children which leads me to believe that she didn't. The last painting seems to have less to do with child rearing and dna and more with mother nature or a spiritual realm since Frida is holding Diego, but Diego has a third eye or third sense. This seems to be an existentialist stance.
ReplyDeleteClearly some people on the internet don't know what they're talking about. She wanted kids you noob. She couldnt have children because she was horrifically injured in a train car accident when she was young, which resulted in a pole entering her abdominal cavity, through her pelvis. This prevented her from having children due to the immense amount of damage it caused. She kept trying to get pregnant AND continually miscarriaging, causing her more physical and emotional pain. Every. Single. Time. But you know, she didnt want a child AT all. Makes sense . . . . .
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