Analysis Of The Mexican Surrealist Artist Frida Kahlo

Both of these paintings show the love and desire to hold on to ones heritage and family traditions which is extremely important in Hispanic families. Both with vivid colors and images. In Kahlo’s “Self Portrait on the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States”, even though she is a Mexican woman living in a non-Mexican country, she is able to accept both sides and hold on to her own Mexican heritage and culture which it seems she preferred. In Garza’s “Camas Para Sueños”(Beds for Dreams), Garza is showing the love and closeness she had with her sister and how her mother allowed them to dream and reach after those dreams as they kept

Frida Kahlo de Rivera born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon July 6th, 1907 was a Mexican Painter who mainly focused on painting self-portraits. Born to a German father and mestiza mother, she spent most of her childhood and adult life in her family home in Coyoacan. She died July 13, 1954 at age 47. Her death was due to Pulmonary Embolism.

Life may have some disappointing moments, however it is all recompensed with other joyful and unforgettable ones. It is sometimes worth suffering in order to learn to be a better person and pursue a happier lifestyle until death. In the poem “Lucinda Matlock,” by Edgar Lee Masters, Masters tells us about the long life of Lucinda Matlock. Along with the poem, we could see how Lucinda Matlock lived a long and wonderful life and she really enjoyed it, even though she experienced many harsh moments. As I read the poem, I learned how Lucinda Matlock grew up to be a strong and determined woman who worked as much as possible to have a good life. Just like Lucinda Matlock, many women today do their best and try to overcome the struggles in life to achieve having a successful future.

Frida Kahlo once said“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” There is no better person to say this than Kahlo, whose life was filled with pain and sadness. She was one of the most influential artists of her time, especially in the Mexican community.. The most important aspects of her life were her multicultural background, her tragic accident she survived as a teen, her relationship with Diego Rivera, her death, and her face as a product.

Frida Kahlo, she never intended to become a painter. Kahlo was aspired to become a doctor as a young woman, but after a horrible accident at the age of 18, it left her mentally, as well as physically scared for life. This event had totally changed her life forever. The theme in almost all of Frida’s painting was her own life. Her paintings were based on events took place during her lifetime. As we can see in many of Frida’s paintings, especially in her self-portraits, it expresses her own personal emotions along with feelings about an event that happened in her life, such as her physical condition, her lack of ability to conceive children of her own, her ideology of life and nature, and most important of all, it was her unstable relationship with her husband Diego. Somewhere between the movement of surrealism, realism and symbolism in the art of Frida Kahlo, she was able to bring out tenderness, femininity, reality, cruelty and suffering within her paintings.

The overprotected nature of the children's life is revealed in several visual elements in the painting. First, and most obvious, the mother leans over the children as she puts them to bed. The father also stands close, looking down at them, with a fond smile on his face. While it is clear that they love their children, the parents' physical orientation towards their children can be said to hover. Another interesting element in this regard is that the father accompanies the process of putting the children to bed. He stands next to his wife as she works with the children. He does not help, but gives the impression that his

Directly above his head, yet still connected to his head is a semi-circle of an image of a woman holding a baby. It appears that the image is a memory, perhaps of his mother holding himself or his wife holding their child. The man is surely a representation of the artist and this is “his life”. He seems to be the focus of the painting and the overall theme appears to be memories layered throughout. Right above the original semi-circle is another semi-circle of four small, colorful squares. Each square is red, yellow, and blue in color reminding me of the artists’ Hispanic origins. Moving inward from the darker, gray and white outer portion of the painting seems to be a bookcase with three separate images. Each image is of a man painting on a canvas. These three separate images of a man painting throughout the artwork could be the artists’ memories of his father, or a significant man in his life. The grays, blacks, and white used show the artists’ darker memories, while the vibrant, beautiful colors symbolize the joyous ones. Similarly, the softer, warmer colors that the artist uses represent his love, appreciation, and admiration towards his father. Overall, the painting is a memory timeline that

Frida Kahlo was born in July 6th 1907 to a Mexican Roman Catholic Mother, which was of Indian Spanish decent, and to a German photographer father. Frida was born at the Blue House which was built by Frida’s father. Frida grew up looking at her father’s photography that helped her learn of Mexican History, Art, and, Architecture. Frida had three sisters –Mitilde and Adriana that were older and Christina who was younger. Sometimes her father would take Frida when he would go paint the country side, she would watch him use his paints and brushes. When Frida was six she got polio. She survived the polio but it was a long time before she would heal. Since she did have polio Frida’s right leg became weak and thin, so her father

Since I started being inundated with talk of college at the beginning of high school, my mom, aunt, friends, and even teachers have instructed me to follow a “traditional” postsecondary route like engineering, law, or medicine. There is more encouragement in the black community to go into those fields. Art was never perceived to be as worthwhile. With this photograph as the impetus of my passion for art, I dived more into this new world for the first time, not caring about the opinions of the people around me. I searched techniques, art-related careers, and different forms of expression. My brain soaked in this knowledge like a sponge. I took the initiative to find more information and learn as much as possible about photography. As I applied the new knowledge, I continued to create art. My mind visualized new projects I could do based on the weather, from the way I see the color of the sun coming down over the Chicago skyline, to accurately depicting black women in Chicago taking snapshots of reality that would otherwise be forgotten by the following month. Photography even became my diary, an outlet for when I want to take a break from the stress of trying to become a successful black woman. The words “never” and “impossible” do not exist in photography. “Maybe this is what I’m supposed to be doing”, I thought to myself, despite the voices pushing me toward a more lucrative

Frida Kahlo’s painting Self Portrait Along the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, 1932 shows drastic differences in the cultures of Mexico and the United States. The Mexican side of the painting contains traditional ornaments and buildings, while the United States side shows copious amounts of factories and smog. Looking at this, one can clearly see the impact of industrialisation on a society and the lack of traditional customs it brings. This poses the question: “To what extent should dying cultures try to maintain their traditions when globalization causes a need for more mainstream customs, and how should more dominant cultures support them?”

Frida Kahlo was born July 6th 1907 in Coyoacan Mexican, where she also died July 17th 1954. She was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, and grew up with two older sisters, Matilde and Adriana, and a younger sister, Cristina. Her father Wilhelm was a German photographer, who immigrated to Mexico, and got married to Frida Kahlo’s Mexican mother Matilde. When she was 6 years old, she got polio. She limped when she walked during her recovery, because the disease had damaged her right foot and leg. In order to recover better, her father encouraged her to play soccer, wrestle, and go swimming, which was very unusual for girls at the time.

It is representative of this particular stage, because it reminds of a mother holding their grown child in their arms. When talking about the stage of launching children, the child is launched into various situations that when returning home, the child, now a young adult is unrecognizable to its mother. Nevertheless, in the picture we can see the hands holding them both together, as if a new relationship is being built, yet needs extra support. For me, this painting represented my mom and I clashing on our religious beliefs. Because when I left home I was catholic and upon coming back home, I was not anymore. We have been struggling to let go of my old identity, and having her deal with the fact that I am not a child with the religious background that she tried to enforce upon

Frida Kahlo is one of the definitive Latina women in the history of the world. Her image and art are synonymous with the Latin American experience and she is an inspiration to many Latin Americans today. Her life and image have been co-opted by so many people over the years after her death that her life has become a post-modern cultural icon. If you look at Frida’s life, she can be whatever you want her to be. She can be seen as an inspirational artist, Diego Rivera’s wife, a revolutionary, a communist, a Mexican role model, feminist queen, etc. the list goes on and on. In this way, she reminds me of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe can be interpreted in many ways as well such as sex symbol, actress, model, fashion and glamour muse, etc. Marilyn Monroe is the Western societal representation of perfection in a woman but Frida Kahlo is a representation of imperfect perfection. She was not traditionally pretty for a lot of reasons. Her body was severely disfigured by some unfortunate accidents and this hindered her ability to ever meet Western beauty standards (the ableism of Western beauty standards was alive and well even in the early 1900’s). Frida’s influence to feminists and people who study body image is how she related to life and how she thought of herself outside of traditional societal standards.

While his love for art was encouraged at an early age, Diego Rivera’s relationship with Frida Kahlo was full of love and drama, yet not as much as the controversy he caused during his movement-inspiring art career, which continued after him. At an early age, Diego Rivera began to express his artistic skill. José Diego Rivera (Hamill 11) and his twin brother, José Carlos Rivera (Hamill 11), were born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico (Biography.com Editors 1). His father was Diego Rivera, a teacher (Helms 23). His mother was María del Pilar Barrientos (Hamill 11), who was also a teacher (Helms 23). Rivera’s mother had endured three stillborns before she had José Carlos and Rivera (Hamill 11). At one and a half years old, José Carlos

Friday Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907. She achieved great international popularity and her use of vibrant colours in many of her works was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. At the age of eighteen, Kahlo was involved in a violent bus accident, damaging her spine and marking her life with chronic pain, infertility and health problems. In Frida Kahlo’s paintings the physical and emotional pain of these injuries transcend from the canvas. http://www.frida-kahlo-foundation.org/.