Analysis Of Source 3, The Two Fridas

1931- Frida´s painting “Frieda and Diego Rivera” is exhibited in San Francisco. Afterwards Frida moves to Mexico City, leaving Diego in San Francisco. During this period she meets a photographer whom which she establishes a love affair for 10 years to come.

In the year of 1932, Frida added a new technique to her painting. Frida added realistic and surrealistic elements in her style. In that year she painted Henry Ford Hospital, this painting was to show her want of a baby and the miscarriage she had. In this painting, there are six flowing objects which all connect to her uterus. The red ribbons are thought to be umbilical cords. The male fetus represents her want of a baby, the fetus is based on a medical illustration. The flower is representing her uterus, the tools and snails are to show how slow the operation was. Lastly, her pelvis is to present the viewer that because of her accident she cannot bear children.

“The two Frida’s” (1940) is an example of kahlos personal experience. Her divorce was the main influence behind this painting. Kahlo is sitting next to herself, facing forward showing her cut out heart, and scissors in her hand with blood dripping down her dress. The background is dark, gloomy and storm like, that portrays pain and betrayal. At this time Frida

The attached painting is called The Two Fridas and is her most famous work. She painted it in 1939 during her divorce with her husband. On the right, she painted herself wearing a European costume, and one the right she is wearing a Mexican Costume, representing her Mexican background. She also holds a locket with a picture of Rivera. The picture also show her bleeding heart. The painting was purchased by the Natinal Institute of Fine Art in Mexico City in 1947 for about $1000.

Frida Kahlo piece Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States, finish in 1932 represents how Frida feels in the United States while her husband Diego Rivera Works. Frida Kahlo paint is now located in New York and belongs to MR. and Mrs. Manuel Reyero. “The original image is a small oil painting on metal (11 3/4" X 13 1/2")” (Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University). In her paints Frida Kahlo always shows how she feels and how her relationship with Diego Rivera is. In this paint she is homesick and represents how she feels between the two countries. Frida Kahlo made cultural representation. For example, she used pre-Columbia temple to represent Mexico’s past and she used machines in United States to represent

Frida used to describe her own paintings as the impression of herself. Anguish emotions and pain are the common themes of her work. These emotions are dramatically expressed in her oil painting and Frida’s art of herself creates a wildly tension about her paintings. Her Pain is made very vivid in all of her painting by the bright different colors she used to indicate the type of emotions she was hindering at the time. She sadly suffered posttraumatic fibromyalgia at a very young age and yet that was bad enough, she was tragically in a terrible bus accident that left her in a body cast. While Frida being confined to her bed she began to paint. She taught herself by using a torso her mother gave her and hanging a mirror overhead her canopy so

Frida was best known for her self-portraits. All she painted were self portraits because she said that she often felt alone. Her mom decided to have an easel made so Frida can paint in bed, while her father lends her a box of oil paints and brushes. The first painting she painted was in the year 1926 and was entitled Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress. This self portrait of her shows that she has a long narrowed face, long neck, and elongation of her hands recalls the Mannerist portraits of Bronzino. The turbulent waves in background give this painting a deep emotional turmoil. In this painting, some of the line work is bold, thick, and some that are flowing. The tone in this painting can be subtle. I think this is the tone because it is very hard to describe and figure out what Frida was feeling while she painted this. Most likely, she was feeling alone and depressed. Many of her paintings were a reference of her reproduction failure. The painting Henry Ford Hospital also known as The Flying Bed, was based on her first miscarriage in 1932.This painting is the most painful portrait she has painted. It is very descriptive because it shows herself laying on the bed bleeding. There were six images surrounding her body. On her lower abdomen by the umbilical cord looking red lines is the fetus of Dieguito. The snail on the upper right represents the horror of losing a baby slowly. Next, is the machine on the lower left, this symbolizes medical impersonality. The orchid is real and was actually a gift from Diego

The portrait depicts a nude Frida Kahlo standing in the foreground of the painting- with the exception of a sheet covering the lower half of her body- and a white corset wrapped around her chest. Frida’s chest is cut open, from the neck all the way down to her pelvis, revealing a half crumbled column with horizontal cracks along it to be in place of her spine. Frida’s body is riddled with nails piercing through her skin and dotting her face. Her long, dark hair hangs behind her shoulders with one side pushed behind her ear as tears stream down her face; however, her eyes hold a stoic gaze that cannot be broken. The background of the painting is a muddy brown earth lined with cracks, leading to a dark sea that meets with the sky. The fissures upon the earth resemble the cracks on Frida’s column as both emphasize the chaos and violence of the tragic incident she faced. Frida Kahlo was influenced by André Breton, a surrealist painter who emphasized Kahlo’s use of surrealism in her portraits, along with traditional Mexican roots and support from her husband Diego Rivera, a muralist. Both Frida Kahlo’s artwork and Hermenegildo Bustos’ work are similar in that both are representative of portrait style art. Also, Bustos’ portrait, The Portraiture of Bustos, reflects a mood of authority and a stoic gaze which Frida adopts in her portraits. She was also heavily influenced by José María Estrada and her painting, Portrait of a Young Woman with a Coral Necklace and Pink Dress. In Kahlo’s painting called, Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, she imitated Estrada’s paining by using the same dress, necklace, and even angling the head in the same direction. By making simple changes, Frida hoped to incorporate Mexican elements into her portrait. Frida influenced many artists throughout her time in the 20th century and continues to pose as an idol and legacy

Throughout the painting, there are nails all over her body but the two nails in her chest are bigger than any of the other nails. I believe that the two larger nails in Frida’s right breast are meant to emphasize just how sad Kahlo Really is. She also has tears coming out of her eyes in this painting. She is really trying to get viewers to understand how hurt she is and how the accident she had been in would haunt her all of her life. After the tragic

The painting doesn’t have a main focus, but rather has various symbolic representations of events in Frida's life. Many scenes from her previous paintings are included in this one along with others which would appear in her later paintings.

The Two Fridas is a painting by Frida Kahlo completed in 1939. The size is 5’8”x5’8”. The medium for this artwork is oil paint. This piece consists of two self portraits of Kahlo sitting on a bench. The “two Fridas” are holding hands and are linked through a vein connecting their hearts. One of the Firdas is holding scissors dripping with blood, used to cut out her heart. The year Kahlo painted this portrait was the year she was divorced from Diego Rivera. In this painting, “Where one is weakened by an exposed heart, the other is strong; where one still pines for her lost love--as underscored by the vein feeding Rivera’s miniature portrait--the other clamps down on that figurative and literal tie with a hemostat,” (“Kahlo, The Two Fridas (Las

On the top right side of the bed, Frida painted a snail that represents a symbol of the slow pain she had with her miscarriages, abortion and her experience of losing a child. The male fetus is a new life of a child whom she would have hoped for and named "Dieguito”. The male fetus is the main part of her painting which brings out the meaning of her painting of the child she longed to have with her husband Diego Rivera. In the middle of the painting, lies an orchid that was given to Frida by her husband Diego Rivera while she was in the hospital which is also a symbol of the female genitalia. Frida said, "When I painted it I had the idea of a sexual thing mixed with the sentimental" (Frida Kahlo). The pink female torso symbolize the fractures that Frida suffered due to her bus accident, showing the anatomy of the inside of a woman 's body as well as show the uterus where her baby was held. It’s also a representative of how Frida would never be able to bear a child due to her health issues. She also states, it was the "idea

Not only did Frida have to suffer and defeat the horrible disease of polio, but just twelve short years later Frida was in a horrible automobile accident. Most of Frida’s paints consisted of her and her tragedies and her friends and family. The history behind most of Frida’s painting consisted of her struggles through life. It was a consistent reminder of her sufferings. The first is the bus crash that happened so sudden that it took everything by surprised. Frida is her early life wanted to study medicine as well as loving craft of painting and art, but after the crash, she went to full time painting (Frida Kahlo). The artistic career path that showed more accomplishment and admired after the death of Frida, then when she was alive. For her paintings started selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars even millions of dollars. Being confined to a bed for three months, and being immobilized, she

There are two Frida's appear in the drawing. One of them is sleeping on the hospital bed after her operation, while the other Frida is holding up a flag says "Tree of Hope, Remain Strong". The message indicates that Frida is strong enough to face her suffering. She uses two words that are hope and strong to courage herself regardless of the accident that she exposed to and various operations that she has to go through in order to get healing. Kahlo was always having hope to live her life without any pain and wound.

But despite this positive state of mind that frida was in, the worst was yet to come. Many affairs later, frida had come to realize that their marriage was on the rocks and reflected on what her mother had commented on the elephant marrying the dove. The painting was done in a traditional Mexican ratabla style. Although this positive image of fridas background and heritage, there are also other symbols and meanings within this picture. Besides the obvious height difference, there are other distinct differences between he two of them. While Diego is painted as he and frida were seen by most people, artists, frida is depicted very differently to how she was. In this picture she is in traditional Mexican clothes, besides the link to her heritage, she is also depicted as somewhat of a housewife, a trait that she very much inverted.