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Frida Kahlo’s biography begins on July 6, 1907 when she was born in the city of Coyocoan, Mexico City. Kahlo has become famous for paintings that show the suffering of bodily injury, which were related to a busing accident that injured her hips and spine. After this debilitating incident, Kahlo met the famous muralist, Diego Rivera, and they were married. Kahlo’s fame as an artist was partially inspired by this marriage, which allowed her to paint images that related to her own experience as a disabled and psychologically depressed individual. In many cases, many of these images, such as the "Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" (1940), began to show the various aspects of womanhood that she expressed through her own feminist ideals.

Her posing is of someone who seems lonely, incomplete and unsatisfied. The portrait is the appearance more of a tomboy. We can see the background of the painting showing the a form of a jungle with different hairy leaves and cactus. The painting has different textures, lines, and colors. We can see a light green mixture with yellow and with some blue, green, and light gray, also the cantus is painted in light gray with a white and slightly brown as it seems from viewing the painting. The natural objects used by Frida Kahlo in most of her portrait, are the natural element as we can see in the Self Portrait with a Monkey. She is wearing a collar and it seems to be made of bamboo material. In the portrait with seeing a Monkey is facing forward and how the monkey has his arm around her with so much care and protection. The monkey reflects an innocent child holding on his mother, reflecting the viewers that he is love and that he feels security by her as his main protection. Her painting is more of a personal portrait. The colors of use are vibrant colors, but even though her colors used were not as dark, her self-portrait seems more with a sad appearance. I think in her life, there has been always an empty hole. Possibly reason were the inability to bear children and her unstable relationship with Diego Rivera. To Frida Kahlo, he was considered to be her soul mate, friend and her tutor in painting. Her emptiness was the need be a woman in every sense of the word. Which is married, have children, and be hundred percent in love and to be love with your partner. I just think this is how she used to feel. Her paintings were most self-portraits, which it shows that she was sad and unhappy. The painting her facial expression is of someone that is lonely and depressed. To Frida Kahlo, her only time of distraction from the pain and the loneliness was painting. Her only distraction and

Born the 6th of July in the year of 1907, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo was raised in a world with emerged with the cultures of German and Mexican. It was with the cultural influence of her heritage and altruistic qualities and values adapted from her parents, that at a very young age had an impact on Frida Kahlo, and a perpetuate influence on her future work and lifestyle. Her father, Guillermo Kahlo born in Pforzheim, Germany, was noted to have inspired her natural admiration and talent in the art of painting as he himself was a renowned professional photographer at the time. From Guillermo Kahlo, Frida singlehandedly learned and implemented her distinguished techniques in her paintings such as the “bizarre imagery along with her linear style [that] was reminiscent of Surrealism” and could compare to the painting style of “Salvador Dali” (Beaver). Kahlo’s relationship with her mother, Matilde Calderon however, impacted her work and lifestyle in a complete distinctive manner in comparison to that of her father’s influence. Despite the aid, care, and creative attention her father granted her, Maltilde withdrew herself from Frida as her caretaker, as she

In Frida Kahlo’s artwork “The Broken Column 1944”, it exhibits an example of a private life experience painting. In this painting Frida articulates her grief and misery in the most honest and disturbing way. She has a series of nails entrenched within her skin. With Kahlo facing front, there is a missing piece leading from her neck down to her stomach. Behind the missing section there is an interpretation of her spinal cord. In this painting, Frida is positioned in the earth with dark valleys. The Broken Column in itself along with Kahlo’s background gives the audience a sense of what kind of pain she has experienced. The sophistication of this painting is very distinguishing. She arranged each stroke firmly to build a simple and clear image of what pain she was going

Reading Mimi Y. Yang’s “Articulate Image, Painted Diary: Frida Kahlo's Autobiographical Interface, " I was particularly impressed with the amount of struggle Frida lived with daily and how she chose to overcome to express her pain through her paintings, and her loneliness through her diaries (Yang, 314). It’s truly remarkable how beautiful Frida’s paintings are, and how much her suffering comes through in works such as The Broken Column and The Two Fridas. I know if I were in as much pain, both physically and emotionally, as Frida, I would most likely stay in bed all day, never mind have the strength to express my personal inner emotions through confessional mediums. Additionally, Frida’s free expression taught me to embrace who I am, both the negative and positive aspects, as she did. Frida never seemed to give into society’s expectations of a female, and continuously pushed boundaries with her confessional art, an aspect of Frida I believe all individuals should

I have chosen the artwork, Las Dos Fridas, of Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon, also known as Frida Kahlo. In the artwork, Las Dos Fridas, Frida Kahlo expresses a lot of naked emotions through her painting about her despaired marriage with ex-husband Diego Rivera. The self portrait shows the two identical interpretations of Kahlo. In her painting, Frida used many type of lines and contour. She uses ruffled lines in her clothing, scattered clouds in the sky, and texture of her hair.

After the accident, Kahlo was left with three month recovery of the injuries. She started to paint since after the accident and painted to occupy her time during her temporary of stopping. Frida Kahlo said “I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know the best”. Kahlo draws her personal experiences as her marriage, her miscarriage and her numerous operations appear in her life with pain.

Frida kahlo was a famous Mexican artist whose life was filled with physical and emotional pain, yet her enthusiasm for art kept her alive which can be seen through the quote “I am not sick, I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint” (Brown, nd). Her work can be described as hard as steel, fine as a butterfly wing, lovable as a smile and cruel as the bitterness of life (Frida,2002). All her work was inspired by the nature around her and the exquisite artifacts of Mexico which is apparent in her use of dramatic symbolism and bright use of colors (Li, and Yoneta,2018). One of the most eye catching painting after her terrible bus accident is the self-portrait which was dedicated to Dr Eloesser and was done when she was half paralysed and painted herself from her position in bed, using a mirror and a wooden structure to hold her canvas.

Mahnoor Qureshi ARTS 1301 Professor Wood 10 September 2015 Using Painting as a Way to Express The painting, The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo is a very interesting painting. Frida painted this painting when she was recovering from a car accident. Frida’s paintings are very personal; mostly about her life because she has been through a lot.

Her work is a mixture of pain and feminism, empowerment of women, and embracing hardships. Out of one hundred and forty-three paintings, fifty-five were self portraits. “I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best.” Kahlo claims. Each one is different, yet the same anguish is laid into the paint.

The film starts with the brief introduction of Frida Kahlo's early life with one of her earliest paintings “My Grandparents My Parents and Me”. The film continues with describing a major bus accident in 1975 which left Kahlo seriously injured with serious lifelong consequences. Despite her recovery, she would never be able to bear a child and underwent 32 operations throughout her lifetime. All the pain she endured from the accident lead to her painting self-portraits about her reality and agony. As shown in her paintings, she had a bumpy married with her husband, Diego Rivera, who bought her trouble and joy. Frida's' art work became known as surrealism from another artist like Pablo Picasso even though she denied painting surrealism because for her she painted her reality. Later on, in her life her condition from her accident became unbearable and she spent

She spoke to the world not by words, but by her distinguished paintings and hard times. Frida relieved her frustrations by drastically painting her honest expression while she struggled with her new illness. Each portrait expressed her anger, difficulties and personal ways. She painted her life as it really was not thinking how it looked to anyone else, but only the meaning and how it represented her as a person. Frida Kahlo recovered in a body cast where she spent most her time alone. She picked herself as the subject to paint because she knew herself the best. All of her drawings were her personal experiences from marriage, to miscarriages, to her every operation. Drawing herself while being mobilized created her creativity to symbolize her physical problems while relieving her emotions. Frida Kahlo’s poor health and chronic pain became prominent themes in her artwork. Frida portrays the effect of her body of the injuries she had sustained and conveys sharp images of the nature of her torment. Painting was her own at home therapy, it helped relive her life again after facing a near death experience. Painting became her

Kahlo was extremely politically active in social issues that were occurring during her time and within her culture. Aside from painting images expressing her physical injuries, another one of her major subjects represented her Mexican heritage and culture; and it was not always in a positive light. Kahlo always presented herself in native Mexican attire. She always wore bright colors and vibrant long skirts, even when she didn’t feel very lively physically. This type of costume is shown in almost all of her

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Frida Kahlo was an artist whose paintings reflected her painful yet passionate life. After going through poliomyelitis and surviving a traumatic bus accident, Frida was faced with the fact that she would be living in pain for the rest of her life. This caused her to feel depressed, so to help her express her inner emotions, she began to paint. Her first painting was a self-portrait that she had created while she was still in the hospital. Frida’s art has influenced many people. It represents both the mental and physical pain that she endured during her lifetime.