Frida

Her pain became the beacon of beauty. Born in 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico, three years before the Mexican Revolutionary War broke out. Frida Kahlo grew up with parents that always encouraged her to be artistic. At the age of six, Frida contracted polio, making one leg drastically smaller than the other. This disease remarkably changed her life and influenced her art in many ways. The tragedies in her life became center stage on her paintings. She took her pain and made it into fascinating art. In…

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…

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…

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6th, 1907 in Mexico. Although she had dreams of becoming an intelligent young doctor, she turned to painting after a traumatic accident that left her damaged both physically and mentally. Her paintings, with their deep and riveting meanings, were left even after her death to enter the lives of those who had not yet seen them. She was, and still is seen today, one of the greatest painters in all of the spanish and english culture. Frida grew up in her family home with…

The Comparison of Vik Muniz and Frida Kahlo There are a few movies or documentaries involving either Vik Muniz or Frida Kahlo. Both individuals have completely different backgrounds, but share the common interest which is art itself. The artists have answered some questions in some unique and vague ways through out their life such as inspiration, metaphors, and so forth, leaving us to wonder how these two are alike in the end as well as different. Vik Muniz was born in Brazil in 1961 (“Vik…

Set Centuries apart in completely different points in time, two artists in particular Frida Kahlo and Judith Leyster created individual masterpiece self-portraits. Considered as one of Mexico’s greatest artists alive, Frida started painting after suffering injuries in a bus accident (Bio). Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain and sexuality (The Complete Works). As rare in…

be getting an award for having the "best smile” at school and all of a sudden the next, your best friend is drafted into the 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,…

The Two Fridas is an oil painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, painted in 1939. This large-scale work presents a double self-portrait of two versions of Frida that takes almost the entire canvas, posing seated on a wooden-bench together. One is wearing a discreet, elegant, white European-style Victorian dress while the other one is wearing a colorful, traditional Mexican dress- both representing the artist’s background. The first impression that depicts this art of work is the duality of a…

“Remembrance of an Open Wound: Frida Kahlo and Post-Revolutionary Mexican Identity”, by Corrine Andersen. The author argued for a more powerful meaning behind Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits, claiming that Kahlo’s works of art were not desperate, attention seeking pieces, but rather, a view of cultural and political strains of present-day Mexico. Andersen wrote this article for the critics who overlooked Frida Kahlo’s activism and public involvement. Andersen was successful in proving Frida Kahlo’s…

with words. Specifically, the painter Frida Kahlo is recognized for using the art of painting to express her physical and emotional suffering. One of Kahlo’s artworks is known as The Broken Column. This work of art shows Kahlo split down the middle, and in the place of her spine is a broken column. Also,…