A Summary Of Frida's Monkeys

“Flora and fauna were vitally important to her pre-Columbian ancestors and during her life this precious resource was cultivated by the oppressed indigenous population she championed. She connects herself to the natural world by echoing the hairs on the vegetation and monkey in her own tresses, styled in her signature indigenous fashion. This bond with nature is reinforced by the curves of her monkey’s arm that embrace her neck, the root-like ribbon slung around the monkey (which she used as a symbol for life-lines), the bone-like necklace Frida wears, and the green ribbon woven so skillfully into her hair that she becomes a part of the leaves” ( Ortega,J.,L.2014). All the forms in this painting are smooth and given special observation to details. Fine …show more content…
The horizontal lines are done on frida’s neck and chin. Line quality is the emotional attributes, seeing as flowing on the monkey's hair and to frida’s hair and eyebrows and on the arm of the monkeys holding on Frida’s neck. Line quality is also seen on the leaves and cantus with a hairy appearance. The Gesture line, in the portraits is the ability to see the movement of the eyes, which to me the eyes of the monkeys seeing so realistic. Movement sees more on frida’s eye do with the way the shape of them were drawn. The Outline which is the outer edges is the one forming the lips, the eyelids, in the collar the Frida is wearing also, on the branches and leaves. The Contour lines mark the edges of the paint in which we can see it on the nose, the mouth, and ears, and also in the elements of the portrait. Cross Contour is noticeable on the lips and the nose of Frida Kahlo, and on the collar as rings. The tones are dark green, light green, yellow and gray, which gives a three-dimensional illusion of the objects. Bright colors are found throughout the