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    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…

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    Entitled Autorretrato con Collar de Espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird), this is one of the most commonly known paintings of the activist and artist Frida Kahlo. This painting was made in 1940 after Kahlo had split up with her husband of ten years Diego Rivera. It is a self-portrait and depicts Kahlo with a monkey and a black cat on her shoulder, a thorn necklace with a hummingbird attached to it around her neck, butterflies and flower-dragonflies surrounding her hair,…

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    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. Pablo Picasso was born on the 25 October 1881 Malaga, Spain. Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City,…

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    Frida Kahlo Influence

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    Frida Kahlo is a very well known painter and political activist who had a very troubling life. She is known for painting about her physical appearance without making herself more beautiful and about very personal matters. During her life she had many health problems and was married twice to the same man, Diego Rivera. Her art was influenced by her beliefs; therefore, she would paint about her personal problems and her political ideas. Along with that her paintings are reflecting her personal…

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    Frida Kahlo Biography

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    Frida Kahlo, born July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico, defines herself as a woman and an artist by pursuing her passions and making her career a priority in a time when women were supposed to be submissive to men and focus solely on pleasing their husbands. Though Frida loved her husband Diego Rivera very much, she had the courage to branch out from what was considered normal at the time, and focus on herself and what she wanted out of her short life. She quickly rose to fame with her paintings…

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    Betzy Morales Frida Kahlo is a Mexican painter who was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. Her real name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon. She started painting after a serious injury from a bus at 18 years old. Kahlo had several surgeries throughout her life due to Polio. As her career as a painter begin to grow, she started to live all around the world such as, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Fifty-five of her paintings are self-portraits. She was also known as a bisexual…

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    Frida Kahlo Identity

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    The female Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, famous for her self-portraits and her own personal experiences occurring during the period of her life where she was having an identity crisis “along with the rest of the post-revolutionary Mexico” (Frida Kahlo - Identity/Duality, Gillingham, Amie). A lot of her identity crisis revolved around both her separation from her homeland and the struggles and problems that it was facing. Her father being a German Jew and her mother being of an ingenious…

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    The self-portraits by Frida Kahlo and Gustave Courbet have important similarities and noticeable differences. First, they both drawn planets of their face, they show sensations and both drown these plates to show the people how they feel. Also, maybe they both share their feeling because they had a hard life and that makes them feel tired, strong, or sad.Kahlo’s portrait shows different feeling like tired and mad. She looks rich but has a hard life and not happy with it. I know she feels like…

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    The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo is a documentary of her life, they talk about all that she went through as a child. Frida Kahlo was an amazing artist but she didn't plan to become one, all her life she wanted to become a doctor, have kids and get married. That all changed one day when she was on a bus and it crashed with another vehicle, and she broke her pelvis,some ribs and her leg. During her time of recovery her father encouraged her to paint, and he bought her paint and a few paint…

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    military. The world isn’t as “perfect” as the media, TV or many people put it to be. Susanna Kaysen, Charlotte Gilman and Frida Kahlo are great examples of what it’s like to drift apart society’s standards. As they talk about and show their feelings and thoughts about how society really is like, they present how their “abnormality” is treated in the eyes of others. Kaysen, Gilman and Kahlo all see the world in reality. Life isn’t easy and not everything is a certain “perfect” way. As these women…

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