Research Paper On Frida Kahlo

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience – Walter Lippmann
Physically the idea of a vessel is something that contains another substance, whether it be a container or even beehive. Metaphysically a vessel represents the idea of a vessel. This includes the subconscious of the human body more specifically the human brain. From looking into the artworks of artists such as Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch and Rene Magritte, the concept of growth, change and mutation, are apparent either physically and metaphysically in their work. From their self-evaluation thoughts have been depicted through their artwork physically and metaphysically with an image …show more content…
Kahlo is portrayed nude except a white sheet that is wrapped around her lower body. Depicting herself by constrained what appears to be a constrained cage-like body brace, missing flesh disrupts the truthfulness of Kahlo’s own body. This uncovers a broken column in place from her spine to the chin. The broken column gives the impression of the column crumpling. Mental nails penetrate Kahlo’s body from her face, arms, breasts, torso and upper thigh the is hidden from the white cloth. Tears stream down her face from the pain the embedded on her body. The background is set on an exposed landscape, terrain on which appears she is standing on is bare and cleaved giving the impression of small green mountain till it meets the blue sky.
The emotional intensity of this painting shows us her own reality of pain she had dealt through. The column placed in the centre of her body symbolizes her spinal injuries after a violent bus accident from when she was younger, undergoing many surgeries on her spinal cord. The cage-like body brace symbolizes the prescribed orthopaedic corsets supporting the deteriorating spine. Her face of tears pouring down but sustains a fierce expression with a look of tolerance from the