Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait shows herself with a monkey, judging from the background in the picture it appears as though she is in a forest or some type of jungle. Judith Leyster painted a picture of herself in turn also painting in the picture like a mirror image which gives a tunnel vision. Several compositions appear in both of these portraits that become fairly noticeable if you concentrate hard enough. Frida’s portrait is made of Oil on Masonite which is often used as a painting support. It is a trademarked brand name of a particular type of board.…
Significant personal events in one’s life can act to influence an individual’s artmaking practice. This is evident through Frida Kahlo’s artwork ‘The Broken Column’ 1944, Jenny Sages ‘After Jack’ 2012 and Christian Thompson ‘King Billy’ 2010. Frida Kahlo, is the first example of such an individual as she experienced a horrible accident causing permanent damage to her spine. As a result of the accident, Kahlo became influenced to paint through using her emotion as a driving force to paint where Kahlo states “I am broken, but I am happy as long as I can paint”. This is depicted in Kahlo’s artwork ‘The Broken Column’ in plate 4 which depicts a figure namely Kahlo herself being pricked by nails with the presence of a broken pillar.…
One had a colorful dress the other just had basic colors, what this meant was one was "unloved" and the other was "loved" versions of Frida. In 1940, Rivera and Frida were remarried and yet the couple continued to lead largely separate lives. And both became involved with other people over the years. Kahlo received a commission from the Mexican government for five portraits of important Mexican women in 1941, but she was unable to finish the project. She lost her beloved father that year and continued to suffer from chronic health problems.…
I don’t think Louise Bourgeois’ abstractions are more powerful than straightforward depictions of the male and female body, but I felt Constantine Brancusi’s abstraction succeed in the task. I feel this way because I found the sculpture representation of the human genitals to be very minimal, although I found the meaning of the works to be thought provoking. For example, in the abstract sculpture,Cumul I by Louise Bourgeois, an individual can see mounds and oval/sphere shapes emerging out of the cloth. These spherical figures are supposed to represent breasts and penisis, but I found myself having various interpretation such as the figures could be bubbles or eyeball trying to break away from the fabric. I believe the artwork has more impact…
Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo de Rivera was born on July 6th, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico. Frida was a Mexican painter who was known for her self-portraits. Frida who was married to Diego Rivera ironically was a bisexual feminist. Kahlo had a tough marriage with Diego Rivera. Frida always had health problems, at the age of six she had been diagnosed with Polio.…
During a time when Mexico was ruled by a dictator. On July 6, 1907, Frida Kahlo was born. Her birth name was Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo. There were many injustices in Mexico for over decades, three years after Frida was born that was the start of the Mexican Revolution. .…
She sees the look of realization on the faces of the ones who have caused her so much pain as the questions are “like a blow on the face.” Her anger is brief but powerful as she drowns in the weight of her grief once more when she sees the “dying” and “neglect” of her children. Given our knowledge of generic conventions such as personification, symbolism, and historical context, the reader is given an even better understanding of the underlying theme and message of the…
Throughout time there have been many artists that have created a variety of intriguing pieces, but nothing compares to the artwork of Seranno and Witkin. Andres Seranno and Joel-Peter Witkin are both American photographer’s and are exceedingly famous for their work. They are also known to be the two most controversial artists of our time; however, their work is often misunderstood. Both Seranno and Witkin have a very distinct style and their pieces usually contain horrific ideas. The ideas represented in their art and the disgusting medium they use to create it make them they controversial artist that they are.…
One of the most influential, and recognized artist of the 20th century is Frida Kahlo. She displays her identity as a woman artist, a Mexican artist, and a politically involved artist in most of her art pieces. One constant theme, in Frida’s artworks is the theme of pain. Throughout her life, she was in constant pain, whether it be from after effects of the accident she had as a young adult, or emotional pain caused by her husband, Diego Rivera. The constant pain that she felt was evident in many of her works.…
Gustave Courbet's life begins June 10, 1819, in Ornans near Besancon in France. Art started for Gustave at a young age in a little seminary at Ornans. His teacher, "Le Pere Baud" decided to take his students out to nature to draw. "This was a very audacious step at that time. Up until the period of Romanticism the landscape did not exist in its own right; it was merely the setting for mythological or other compositions."…
In SImone de Beauvoir’s passage she closely follows her phenomenological approach to philosophy and explains the equality dynamics of a traditional married couple, mostly from the perspective of the man and how they change when the relationship encounters conflict. It starts of by giving us a picture that when a young woman is growing up in the family as she is “clothed in the same social dignity as the adult males”. In her eyes woman are not treated as subordinate until the male grows old enough to desire love. In this relationship the man still sees the woman as an equal. even though there are some mild differences between them, there is still a respect of the woman.…
Throughout history the art of portraiture has been practiced by various artists. One popular artist who has explored this was Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo. Picasso being a more well-known and mainstream artist compared to Kahlo. Although they come from different times in history and a very different location geologically but similar culturally. Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo both have endeavoured in the various ways of portraiture as a way of making art.…
Fauve paintings have a unique style, in the earlier Fauve canvases where color relates directly to emotional expression and not formal needs of the plane or reality of nature. Henri Matisse completed what is considered one of his greatest Fauve paintings in 1906, the Bonheur de Vivre which is the “Joy of Life”. Matisse’ work is said to represent similar qualities to Cezanne, for example they both create the landscape to function as a stage. Also, they both like to unify the figure and the landscape. While each artist has their own style and techniques in doing this, Matisse himself puts a heavy emphasis defining contours while Cezanne stiffens and tilts his trunk-like figures.…
In this article, Lambirth explains what he observed from the children viewing her work. He says,“ Probably the most famous painting in the whole exhibition is ‘The Two Fridas’ in which she’s depicted broken-hearted. He overheard one child say to her teacher ‘she killed herself’ as she studied this fearful image before being hustled on to the next surprise to the system” (Lambirth). It seems alarming that a young child would mention talk of suicide, however, it also shows the reality of what effect Frida’s artwork has on people. Many people perceive many different messages from Kahlo’s art…
In “The Painter of Modern Life,” Charles Baudelaire gives his definition and explanation about the true beauty of art. In the first section “Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness,” Baudelaire shows his concern about the “present” in the painting because he thought that the beauty of the art is “its essential quality of being present” (p.1). In the following passage, Baudelaire uses a lot of words to praise a man named as “Monsieur G” in the essay. He describes Monsieur G, just like the title of this section, as “the artist, man of the world, man of the crowd, and child” (p.5). Baudelaire thought that Monsieur G’s curiosity and observation of the world and life made him such a skilled, unconventional artist.…