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Analysis Of A Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair By Frida Kahlo

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An example that shows that art uses various ways of knowing is Frida Kahlo’s painting “A self-portrait with cropped hair.” This painting shows Frida Kahlo sitting on a chair with a very sad, disappointed and angry look on her face. She is wearing men’s clothes and looks as if she had just cut her hair very short as there are pieces of hair in the floor and a pair of scissors. At the top of the painting it says “look if I loved you it was because of your hair. Now that you don’t have any hair I don’t love you anymore.” Frida Kahlo used her emotions of sadness, disappointment and anger that were based on her unfaithful husband to do this painting . These strong emotions were the starting point for this work of art. Imagination was then used

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