Artist and their Identity Artists and authors throughout the years learned many life changing experiences from their past, whether they were hurt or ecstatic. Like artist Frida Kahlo, in 1944 she painted the painting called The Broken Column. The painting was shortly made after Frida underwent her spinal surgery. Although her whole body is supported by the corset, she is conveying a message of spiritual triumph. She has tears on her face but she looks straight ahead and is challenging both herself and her audience to face her situation. Frida learned even though there's pain in life she’ll still fight and challenge herself. Other great examples are Franz Kafka and Ayn Rand, both authors show a great amount of patience and bravery. Kafka at
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Later on his three sisters got dispatch into concentration camps and died there. Kafka wasn't close with either of his parents. His mother, Julie Kafka had to work 12 hours a day, and payed no attention to her childrens. Hermann Kafka his father, hated the fact that Kafka was into literature. In 1915 Kafka wrote the story “The Metamorphosis” the story was supposed to be a reflection of his life while living with his family and what his life feels like. A quote in “The Metamorphosis” by Kafka said, “Constantly seeing new faces, no relationships that last or get more intimate” (Kafka 2). “This shows one of Gregor's main complaints about being a traveling salesman is that he can never establish a lasting relationship with anyone because he's always moving around. Stuck at home over the course of the story, he's still unable to make a connection with anyone not even family” (Stephan 1). This quote shows one of the main cultural identity for Kafka, he can never establish a long and lasting relationship with anyone not even his family. He is the only guy in his family besides getting emotionally abused by his father about writing, but Kafka still didn’t quit his dreams on writing he continued making more stories not just “The Metamorphosis” …show more content…
After communism came to power in 1917, her father's small business was confiscated, and the family endured years of suffering and danger. Alyssa, whose ambition was to become a writer, knew that she could not survive in a country where free expression was prohibited. She escaped from Russia and, two weeks after her twenty-first birthday, arrived in the United States” (Cox 1). Rand wanted freedom badly enough to risk her life by escaping from Russia, when she wrote the book “Anthem” she was attributing her life in Russia, a quote from the book “Anthem” said, “But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else” (Rand 101). In the book “Anthem” the main character Equity explained what freedom means to him, a person's ability to be alone to do what they want. Rand wanted freedom and she showed it perfectly through writing “Anthem”. Writing the book “Anthem” showed a huge part of her cultural identity, in contempt of the hardship she faced, Rand still had anticipation all the way to the end.
Overall all these artist and authors have been surrounded with unforgettable events, that changed their lives, but they persevered through them and never gave up hope; Frida and her back surgeries, also conflict with Diego Rivera. Franz
Later on his three sisters got dispatch into concentration camps and died there. Kafka wasn't close with either of his parents. His mother, Julie Kafka had to work 12 hours a day, and payed no attention to her childrens. Hermann Kafka his father, hated the fact that Kafka was into literature. In 1915 Kafka wrote the story “The Metamorphosis” the story was supposed to be a reflection of his life while living with his family and what his life feels like. A quote in “The Metamorphosis” by Kafka said, “Constantly seeing new faces, no relationships that last or get more intimate” (Kafka 2). “This shows one of Gregor's main complaints about being a traveling salesman is that he can never establish a lasting relationship with anyone because he's always moving around. Stuck at home over the course of the story, he's still unable to make a connection with anyone not even family” (Stephan 1). This quote shows one of the main cultural identity for Kafka, he can never establish a long and lasting relationship with anyone not even his family. He is the only guy in his family besides getting emotionally abused by his father about writing, but Kafka still didn’t quit his dreams on writing he continued making more stories not just “The Metamorphosis” …show more content…
After communism came to power in 1917, her father's small business was confiscated, and the family endured years of suffering and danger. Alyssa, whose ambition was to become a writer, knew that she could not survive in a country where free expression was prohibited. She escaped from Russia and, two weeks after her twenty-first birthday, arrived in the United States” (Cox 1). Rand wanted freedom badly enough to risk her life by escaping from Russia, when she wrote the book “Anthem” she was attributing her life in Russia, a quote from the book “Anthem” said, “But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else” (Rand 101). In the book “Anthem” the main character Equity explained what freedom means to him, a person's ability to be alone to do what they want. Rand wanted freedom and she showed it perfectly through writing “Anthem”. Writing the book “Anthem” showed a huge part of her cultural identity, in contempt of the hardship she faced, Rand still had anticipation all the way to the end.
Overall all these artist and authors have been surrounded with unforgettable events, that changed their lives, but they persevered through them and never gave up hope; Frida and her back surgeries, also conflict with Diego Rivera. Franz