Frida, By Julie Taymor

Frida Kahlo was one of the most fascinating visual artists of the nineteenth century. Her art and life were filled with pain that was both emotional and physical which she expressed through her paintings. Frida was her art. Frida did not conform to most cultural norms or gender roles in her life time, she was a free spirit trapped in an invalid body. While she did not assume very much acclaim during her lifetime she did manage to be very well traveled even though she was born and died in the same home. She eventually developed a cult-like following in the nineteen-eighties and nineties. She has become a poster girl for modern feminism and a political force of her own time, through all of her physical pain and heartache she was able to

The nails throughout her body are describing where she felt the agonizing pain. Frida had to wear a surgical brace, so her broken bones would heal. During her recovering is when her interest in painting began. She used this time to come up with many famous artworks.

Frida’s rise to success was defined by the challenges she endured over time. She had this sense of durability, strength and resilience. She can be rude and bold and also smoke and drink like the men. . At first Frida”s painted what she felt, but it wasn’t to show anyone or sell any paintings. . Every tragedy that affected her she would paint it and express it. In my opinion her rise began once she witness her husband having and affair with her sister. it hurt her so much inside the only way to let it go and let it out was she had to paint it. After that, she went on her own and began painting her pain. Through out her life she endured many hardships that hurt her internally. This shifted her point of view

“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

Her injuries and recovering not only made her stronger physically but emotionally as well. “She was in a bus accident when she was 18 and during this time she found her passion: painting.”(Madison 1) The accident had a substanial impact on her life because she discovered herself through painting. After her recovery she found her purpose by engaging her emotions onto a blank canvas. After failure we should not give up so easily on our passions. “What thoroughly fascinated me about Frida was that she lived exactly how she wanted.”(Youseff 4) I feel like she never lost her spirit after so much trauma. Regardless of her injuries, suffering, and recovering, she still managed to get back up on her feet to pursue her passion and her life. Overall, we shouldn´t let lifes unforeseen curve balls get the best of us, we should still continue to pursue our passions and desires in

The depiction of two Fridas implies a dualism between the subjects—a division within Frida herself. A vein connects the vulnerable hearts of the Fridas; while the first Frida’s heart is exposed, the other remains intact. The first Frida appears to have cut the vein with scissors, incising its passage across her arm; blood pours out of the wound, leaving spots of deep red on her otherwise pristine dress. In the second Frida’s hand rests a small portrait, perhaps her former husband; her vein wounds around her arm and remains connected to this

Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico 1907. She was a Mexican artist who painted from the 1920s until she died in 1954, she liked to paint herself the best, so she is most well known for that. Frida got into a car accident when she was young that left her injured. Her art reflects her pain, she was unable to walk properly and in pain throughout the rest of her life. She was super influenced by surrealism, she didn't like to have her art categorized though, she said that she paints her reality and not dreams or nightmares. She painted sixty-six self-portraits that all portray her pain, cultural identity, heritage, and intense emotion.

Salma’s passionate approach to film making ended in her dream role, producing and staring in 2002s Frida. The film was nominated for six academy awards, including Salma getting a best actress nomination, making her the first Latin actress to be nominated in that category.

All the symbolism in Las Dos Fridas surrounds the idea that she has been hurt and vulnerable and actually letting the world see her “desperation and loneliness”

The biographical films, ‘Frida’ and ‘Pollock both explore the lives of an artist and how their conflicting life of illnesses and hardship influence their art. The text ‘Frida’ explores an artist named Frida Kahlo’s controversial life and how her fertility struggles had an influence on her art work, as well as other factors. Frida experienced a miscarriage, which resulted in emotional agony to discover her son died. Fragile and angry, Frida painted herself lying naked on a hospital bed covered in blood with six objects flying around her, one included the fetus of her dead son. Frida used the painful experience and turned it into art.

In Frida, an autobiographical film based on the life of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Julie Taymor (director) wonderfully presented the real-life of Kahlo’s. Frida Kahlo was a phenomenal woman who broke through every expectation placed on a middle-class Mexican woman. Taymor does an impressive job of capturing the emotional transformation that occurs in Kahlo after she is fatally injured on a bus accident in Mexico City, Mexico. Kahlo is left in an incurable state that causes her to be bedridden; however, through her breakup she is able to gain the motivation required to properly recover. While is she painfully healing, Kahlo begins to explore her talent in painting and eventually is able to prefect it. After Kahlo is able to somewhat recover, she sparks a friendship with her future husband,

“Little Red Riding Hood” by Trina Schart Hyman is an enchanting version of the Brothers Grimm story of a little girl’s journey through the woods to deliver goods to her sick grandmother. This illustrated story introduces characters in such an imaginable way feeling almost as if you’re in the story and being part of that suspenseful expedition. Although in most fairy-tale versions of the story we don’t get the characters actual names; we depict them through physical appearances. An adolescent girl with a red riding hood, a large wolf that is presumably heinous, and a gentleman in the woods. I was quickly introduced to the author’s antagonist; the wolf who appears devious and crafty finding ways to accomplish his own selfish desires. Reaching

Julie Taymor has taken the astonishing story of Frida Kahlo one of Mexico’s best-known artists, and turned it into her own piece of artistic brilliance, ‘Frida’. Frida, played by Salma Hayek experiences a number of events that impact her life which influences her to tell her stories through the use of visual art. After a tragic bus accident that almost killed her, Frida began unravelling who she was and started to paint the views she had of herself at times that were beautiful and times that were not. Throughout the film Taymor has taken pieces of artwork and made use of ‘pans’ to cut to unrealistic scenes reflecting the unfamiliar emotions of characters in Frida. It is particularly seen within the film that Frida is constantly presented as

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

Waiting for Godot is known to be a classic example of “Theater of the Absurd”, drama using the neglect of conventional dramatic form to portray the ineptness of human struggle in a meaningless world. Director Judy Hegarty Lovett and actor Conor Lovett 's Beckett work with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland has gained them a reputation as two of the world 's foremost Beckett interpreters. Judy Hegarty Lovett and her husband, Conor Lovett, had a very successful year in 2014. I was very interested to see if this director/actor power couple held up to all the hype, and I was delighted to see such a strong performance by both. Conor, although working in a lot of solo plays the past year, was a pleasure to watch, and well deserved his Stage award for Acting Excellence, in 2014, for Title and Deed. Judy Hegarty did an outstanding job in the production of Waiting for Godot with the use of the simplicity of the character’s needs, and subtle comical nature.