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15 de abr. de 2019 · Musement takes a look at eight of Frida Kahlo’s most famous paintings. Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) was an icon not only for her colorful Tehuana dresses and prominent unibrow but also for her personality, which emanated great strength and intelligence. Kahlo’s short, though intense life was full of suffering, and this is evident in art, which ...
Though the Surrealists adopted Frida Kahlo as one of their own, the painter maintained that she did “not know if my paintings are Surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expression of myself.” She produced numerous self-portraits, each one an articulation of different facets of herself and her eventful life.
Frida Kahlo" is stuck into a prickly pear, signaling Kahlo's use of the fruit as an emblem of personal expression, and communicating her deep respect for all of nature's gifts. During this period, the artist was heavily reliant on drugs and alcohol to alleviate her pain, so albeit beautiful, her still lifes became progressively less detailed between 1951 and 1953.
She suffered multiple fractures of her spine, collarbone and ribs, a shattered pelvis, broken foot and a dislocated shoulder. She began to focus heavily on painting while recovering in a body cast. In her lifetime, she had 30 operations. Life experience is a common theme in Kahlo's approximately 200 paintings, sketches and drawings.
The Broken Column is a painting from 1944. It depicts Frida after spinal surgery, bound and constrained by a cage-like body brace. She is missing flesh, and a broken column is exposed where her spine should be. Metal nails pierce Frida’s face, breasts, arms, torso and upper thigh, and tears are streaming down her face.
6 de jul. de 2021 · Weeping Coconuts (1951) Los Angeles County Museum of Art. What people know the most about Frida are her self-portraits, but another way of portraying herself and her feelings was through still lives. Here she painted a couple of coconuts, and one of them seems to be crying. An element that represents her love of Mexico, such as the flag, is ...
Jul 6, 1907 - Jul 13, 1954. Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and ...
