Guillermo Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who was best known for the self-portraiture work which she created during her career (Fridakahlo.org, 2014). Early on in her life it was her ambition not to become a painter but rather a doctor. This ambition was however quashed when at the age of 18 the bus she and her boyfriend were traveling on was struck by a tram. As a result of this horrific accident Frida Kahlo had to spend one year in a hospital bed, recovering from the massive injuries to her body. Over…

clearly display their true skill sets and artisanship in their paintings of themselves. Frida Kahlo, with her famous surreal self-portrait with a monkey and Judith Leyster, with her self portrait of her painting within the picture. Both self-portraits have many differences, but also have small similarities that tell an immense deal about their lives and influences. In the first self-portrait, created by Frida Kahlo, it is easy to see the variety of hues that she uses in order to create a more…

An artist’s world experience in life can be a major influence on how they create and develop their artworks. Frida Kahlo (born 1907, died 1954), Gordon Bennett (born Australia 1955) and Edvard Munch’s (born in 1863, died 1944, Ådalsbruk, Norway) are all famous artists from different times of the era who express their worlds from all display their extreme experiences and journeys in life throughout their artwork. Frida Kahlo's artwork 'The Miscarriage' made in 1932 displays Kahlo's experience…

Kahlo was deeply influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, which is apparent in her use of bright colors and dramatic symbolism. She frequently included the symbolic monkey. In Mexican mythology, monkeys are symbols of lust, yet Kahlo portrayed them as tender and protective symbols. Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work. She combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with surrealist renderings. Kahlo's first self-portrait was Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress…

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…

marriage, her abortions and the number of operations, and their united signs of pain are often characterized by its work. She had a strong personality, physically disabled, but full of energy, artistic power, life force, uncompromising posture. Frida Kahlo translated pain into art like no other artist. From the day of the accident until the day of her death she had thirty-two operations. Her unique,…

By Lizabel Mónica Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery. WHO IS…

Pan’s Labyrinth commences when the main character, an eleven year old girl named Ofelia, and her pregnant, sickly mother travel into the forest to an old mill with her evil stepfather. Ofelia clings to her mother at the beginning of the story to not confront the unhappiness of her reality. One night she sneaks out of the mill lured by a locus to an enchanted garden in the forest, and interacts with a faun that informs her about her father and her potential future. Once she returns back to mill…

In Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece, “Pan’s Labyrinth”, he explores the important connection of a person and their imagination within everyday reality. Based on a fairy tale, Princess Moanna whose father is king of the underworld visits the human world where she is blinded by sunlight, which then erases her memory and becomes mortal. The setting is in Spain 1944, during the country’s Civil War. The film follows Ofelia; a young girl whose father died in the war and her pregnant mother married…

Pan’s Labyrinth Analysis The fantasy in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s labyrinth transforms between a frightening fairytale perception and reality to create a film that expresses the value of imagination when displaying Ofelia’s vicious enemies, we live in a world where choice and defiance are necessary in order to survive and defend ourselves. The relationship between Ofelia’s desire to go against the autocracy of Vidal and The Faun connects and shows the non-stop human desire for power in the…