Film Analysis: Frida

Throughout her career, Frida had shown many different themes of her life through her paintings. It seems clear, through analyzation of her paintings, that Frida lived something of a double life. Frida paints herself in distinctly different ways at times, sometimes she is a beautiful woman with strength like iron, and sometimes she is a frail damsel who has been broken already and will be broken again. Contrasting paintings include Self Portrait with Monkeys (Kahlo, 1) and Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace, Diego and I (Kahlo, 1) and The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Me, Diego, and Mr. Xolotl (Kahlo, 1). All of these paintings show that not only is there a contrast in her personality, in fact, Frida’s is actually two different people, as she paints it.

Frida was against the feminine ideals that were imposed on her by society as a result she became an important feminist icon. Kahlo was often, and still is, criticized by her facial hair, what is admirable about her is that despite how much negative opinions she experienced, she kept her head held high, she was proud of her unibrow

Her self-portraits have been described as being surreal, but Frida answered such comments with, "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”

Finally after 3 years Frida and Diego moved back to Mexico where Diego Had built a house with two separate wings that were separated by a bridge that they would live in. Frida on one side Diego on the other. This is a time in her life that Frida and Diego would fought and argued a lot. Frida’s greatest paintings would be painted in this time. Now being back in Mexico Frida could really show how talented she truly was.

Frida Kahlo is a very interesting person whom has been through a lot in her short life. Though there is so much to say about the past of Frida Kahlo from her ghastly affair’s and man like tendencies. Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 and lived in a house that her father built in Mexico City (Tuchman). Kahlo was a hard working woman but who had a horrible temper. When Kahlo was engaged with Rivera at the age of twenty-one, her father even gave a warning to Rivera. That Frida was “a devil” and Rivera replied “I know it (Tuchman).” Throughout Kahlo’s life time she only produced around two- hundred paintings. Her paintings were all relatively still portraits of herself and of friends and family. She was good at creating hunting, and sensual original paintings and that fuse the elements of surrealism (Tuchman).

One of the Frida's that is sleeping in the hospital bed appear to be helpless woman, but the other Frida appear to be strong and optimistic woman. Frida's hope is to restore her health completely, so she will be able to live her life as she wish and to wear a beautiful dress and stand independent. But, she was not able to recovered from her injuries.

Frida Kahlo's influence still lingers around the world. Even with Frida dead for almost two decades, she is still celebrated and thought of as an idol. Frida Kahlo was an artist in many different ways. Besides Frida's incredible talent to paint surrealist thoughts and emotions on canvas, she also was and artist in her mind and body. Frida's attire of traditional Mexican clothing, which consisted of long, colorful dresses and exotic jewelry, and her thick connection eyebrows, became her trademark. To the public, Frida Kahlo appeared to be full of spirit and joy. She walked through life happily, with a smile glued to her face. However, her feelings of anguish, anger, unhappiness of her painful miscarriages, and

I agree with you about the fact that the movie showed how Frida was in real-life. Ms. Taymor’s film combined sentiment and pathos which helped to show off important events of Frida’s life. Also, I agree that Frida’s life was marked by two major events: the bus accident and the multiple affairs Diego had. Since we are talking about a movie biography (Kahlo’s life), maybe the author of the review decided to focus more on her life’s major events and how she felt about it, rather than to talk about how Diego Rivera felt after finding out Frida’s affair.

Frida Hahlo overcame a horrible illness that left her disabled, then, she overcame a horrific accident. Against all odds, she was able to walk again. For this reason, I believe that Frida was a very strong woman. Frida’s paintings may have been a way to self sooth or perhaps her art was her form of release of emotions. Although Frida’s artwork is not something that I would normally be attracted to due to the graphic nature of the paintings, her painting “Diego on My Mind”, is touching and romantic. In this painting she appears to be wearing a wedding dress. Perhaps this painting is to tell her husband that she is dedicating herself to him once more after their break up. In conclusion, Frida was a brilliant artist that put her heart

Frida Kahlo faced many problems in her life. She was physically weak and mentally depressed. Her physical condition made her suffer intense pain everyday. Not being connected to the outside world like she used to be also made her upset. In 1925, Frida Kahlo suffered a serious accident that destroyed all her future plans. Unlike injured people who just lay on their bed all the time, Kahlo did not waste her time like that. She started doing something very productive, something that helped her; she started painting. Her portraits were mostly emotionally raw and visually disturbing.

Kate Abbey-Lambertz starts off her article by stating some of the hardships Frida had to live through before her 25 birthday Polio , a car accident that left her permantly disfigered and a miscarrgie. In frida art work you can see this pain and suffering but yet it has this gentle qulity to it. I can`t but feel sorry for her every time I look at her artwork. In the article her husband Diego Rivera is quoted Never before had a woman

Frida was a very skilled painter who did mainly self-portraits where she expressed her feelings and portrayed herself in unconventional ways. Frida would take some of the events of her life and paint them. For example, Frida painted the auto accident she was in that left her with traumatizing pain, the miscarriages she suffered as a result of the accident, the heartbreak she

Even though Gaultier’s design has been based off a painting, painted in a very hard, and painful time for Frida, we can still see the beauty and richness Gaultier has captured from looking at her for inspiration. In the fashion design we can see a darker side to Frida, her closeness and fearful relationship with death, due to her cross earrings and darkness of the entire outfit. Frida had a seductive effect on people, she was a charmer and often caught swearing and telling dirty jokes. If you didn't know about her horrific life accident, you would defiantly see this piece as a risqué, outgoing design. Which I think is a very large part of Frida's

In the scene when Frida is in the Detroit Hotel. She experiences another tragic incident, the miscarriage of her second child to Diego. One night in 1932 just three months of being pregnant Rivera, who sneaked in quietly, finds her lain down with blood around her legs. The scene that follows is one of panic and fright as she is rush to the emergency room. During the operation the baby, who was not fully developed, came out in pieces. Frida declared he “disintegrated” in her womb. After a few days in the hospital bed, she staggered out from her room and requested to see her child. The

Frida Kahlo as an artist is very expressive and emotional in her artworks she makes a point of making sure that nothing is left out. For example in this artwork the focal point could be her moustache and monobrow, these features are not usually seen in artworks but Frida believes that she is beautiful the way she is and seems to make a point out of representing herself as a whole person and not leaving anything out of her self portraits. Frida has done a wonderful job of communicating her emotions and this artwork is clearly read and understood. After the bus accident that Frida was involved in she experienced many problems and health complications therefore limiting her time to enjoy her life, this may be the reason she chooses to paint and be so expressive in her artworks. She really shares all her emotions, feelings and expression when painting and really shares her story in her time of sickness and pain. This relates to the point that although Frida was going through a rough stage in her life she believed that there was still happiness and adventure out there for her and there was a life to enjoy after