Research Paper On Frida Kahlo

For as long as art has existed there have been people using it to express themselves, however the most powerful and memorable works tend to be those that come from an artist with great struggles, for the emotion of that struggle is embedded in every brush on the canvas. Albeit from two contrary cultures and century, Frida Kahlo born and raised in 1900’ Mexico and Annette Bezor from 1950’, Australia, the two woman have both made impact in the feminist world with their paintings, expressing similar issues the separate women deal with, investigations into woman and their cultural roles, female sexuality, politics of gender, representation of women. Albeit, both women specialised in surrealism and portraits, they managed to represent their artworks in distinctly contrasting forms. …show more content…
Hardly feminine, by her society’s standards, Kahlo used her paintings not as an expression of beauty but one of self-examination and self-discovery. All her works very personal expression, particularly her 1944 work of The Broken Column, one of her first paintings, Kahlo was in hospital for a traumatic car accident that resulted in extensive injuries to her collarbone, rids, leg and in particularly her spine and pelvis, leaving her consequently unable to have children. Broken Column, an expressively emotional self-portrait of Kahlo, showing a surrealism representation of her injuries, featuring white tears, nails piercing her skin allover, and revealing a shattered column representing her spine, the direct piece was the ground Kahlo’s works would build