...Even though both images have a great significance to Frida they convey different messages to the audience. In Time Flies, Frida resembles herself as a strong competent person that is looking fiercely to her viewers. As well in The Broken Column, she remains the same, but with a disastrous and gloomy tone. Both images are strong but portray different tones because they were in different time lines. During the time she painted Time Flies she fell in love with Diego Rivera and married him in 1929. Frida had a better mindset, so she painted herself in a more delighted mood. In contrast, The Broken Column seemed to have a different tone because she presented herself as a more dreadful person. She was feeling disconnected to herself and wasn’t a...
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...Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican artist. She was known for her unique paintings and self-portraits. Her paintings are unique because she uses art as a form of spiritual and personal healing. Some of her paintings also possess elements of feminism and political commentary. Frida was in no way afraid to express herself sexuality neither in real life nor in her artwork. “She had a lurid imagination, and her fascination with sexual organs, also seen in the drawings in her journal and in a number of her paintings, burst forth in the ‘exquisite corpses.’” (Frida 162). What The Water Gave Me and Self Portrait Dedicated to Marte R Gomez, pencil on paper were painted by Frida Kahlo in 1938 and 1946 respectively. What The Water Gave Me shows Frida in a bathtub from a first-person perspective. Her feet emerge from the water and reflect onto the water’s surface. Events of her life are also reflected upon the water. “Her fantasy was a product of her temperament, life and place; it...
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...Diego Rivera One of my favorite art works is La Molendera, or The Woman Grinding Maize, by Diego Rivera. The medium of this painting is oil paint on a horizontal canvas that measures 106.7 x 121.9 cm. When I first see this painting, the woman dressed in white with her hair split in two braids, grinding maize on a stone, is what stands out to me the most. It is traditional for women in Mexico that make tortillas to grind the maize, corn, on a rock. In the background I see three already made tortillas baking on top of a ceramic dish. The colors used in the atmosphere are cool toned, which gives you a sense of calm and a soothing sensation. The main colors used here are blue, gray and brown; the only white that was used was for the woman in the picture. I think the reason why Rivera used white for the woman’s dress was to draw attention directly to her and the work she is doing. There is a lot of roundness in the painting. For example, the skillet where the tortillas are heating is round, the stone grinder is oval, and the woman’s arms and body are also round. Overall, Rivera synchronized all the objects in this painting to the same size, everything is painted is bold and big. He had a great sense of color and an enormous talent for structuring his work. Diego Rivera, the creator of this painting, was Mexican and was married to another famous artist, Frida Kahlo. A lot of Rivera’s later work was influenced by historical, political and social themes to show the life of Mexican people...
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...Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calderon was born on July, 6, 1907, in nowadays known as Casa Azul in Coyoacan, a town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father, Wilhelm Kahlo, was German who had moved to Mexico at a young age where he remained for the rest of his life, eventually taking over the photography business of Kahlo’s mother’ s family. Her mother, a Wilhelm’s second wife, Matilde Calderon y Gonzales, born of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry, raised Frida and her five sisters in a strict and religious household. Frida Kahlo’ s work was influenced by traumatic psychological and physical events from her childhood and early adulthood; using her personal tragedy, combined with a realistic painting style, she produced images that were...
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...Frida Kahlo: The Woman. The Artist. Why did I choose Frida Kahlo for my research paper? I choose Ms. Kahlo because she is my favorite artist. I first learned of her in middle school and immediately fell in love with her work. It was very emotionally impacting. I have included many samples of her artwork. The things she saw and accomplished prompted the sensational works that spilled out of her brush. She had not wanted to follow in the imaginative strides of her photographic artist father and granddad. Yet, take a gander at the silver coating of the deplorability of her mischance. As opposed to turning into a specialist, she painted pictures that made individuals talk and examine. She is presently unmistakable worldwide for her one of a kind representations toward oneself. Frida Kahlo was a female Mexican painter of mixed heritage, born on July 6, 1907, who lived 47 painful years before passing away on July 13, 1954. Within her short life, Frida was slightly crippled from polio, suffered from a serious streetcar accident that left her infertile, married famous muralist Diego Rivera, divorced, remarried Rivera, became a political activist and rose to fame through her oil paintings, all before succumbing to her poor health. She was an intelligent female in a society that wanted women to be pretty, submissive wives and mothers. She struggled with cultural demands of her gender in a time when women were demanding a change in their role. All these aspects of her life, and more...
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...Frida Kahlo: Su Vida en Un Lienzo Frida Kahlo es una de las más talentosas artistas en la historia. Era una mujer distinta, particularmente en sus autorretratos con cejas negras unidas y un bigote. Las características de su personalidad incluían su fuerza e independencia porque no se asustaba para expresar exactamente lo que sentía, y por eso, era muy valiente y servía como modelo de alguien que poseía mucha franqueza con ella misma. Para empezar, su personalidad era muy exquisita. Tenía un corazón tan grande como el mundo porque trataba a sus sirvientes como su propia familia. Siempre trataba a todos con igualdad y respeto. También, las actividades que ella le gustaba eran bailar, coquetear, y seducir a otras personas porque ella le encantaba divertirse y tenía un sentido de humor poco convencional, especialmente para una mujer, porque participaba en chistes inapropiados. En continuación, otro aspecto de la vida de Frida Kahlo que es interesante era su elección de ropa. Ella era mestiza y quería llevar ropa indígena. Frida estaba muy orgullosa de su herencia y raíces y nunca estaba asustaba por compartir este sentimiento con otras personas porque lo que sí es cierto es que le encantaba México, su patria, con todo su corazón. Su ropa, especialmente sus faldas, eran largas y a veces tocaban sus pies. Su ropa decorativa es evidente en su arte también. A pesar de que Frida tenía capacidades físicas que limitaba lo que podía hacer, vivía su vida haciendo todo lo que quería hacer...
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...Name: Leriz Pineda Date: 09/30/15 Period: 6 Type your interpretive response here. Be sure to include specific examples from the text (painting), including symbolism, to support your analysis. Frida Kahlo also known as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán. Perhaps best known for her self-portraits, Kahlo's work is remembered for its pain and passion, and its intense, vibrant colors. Her works has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. Frida Kahlo’s artwork called the Self Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, her feelings were revealed. Frida Kahlo showed in the painting on how she longed for Mexico but has to stay in the United States....
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...Can we know when to trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge? Consider history and one other area of knowledge. Candidate Name: Nastassja Isabelle Session Number: 002636-063 School Name: Binus International School Simprug Session: May 2013 Word Count: 1598 “The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason”, American author, Marya Mannes once said. Emotion is defined as a strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. In the pursuit of knowledge, there are times when emotion could be involved in order to gain a better understanding of a certain aspect. However, relying on emotions too much could also cloud our judgment, for it is a very subjective way of knowing. This essay will discuss how reliable our emotion is in the pursuit of knowledge in two areas of knowledge; history and the arts. To start with, emotion plays a big part in judging historical figures and events that were immortalized through history books. The question is, would it be accurate enough to judge them solely based on our emotions? Take Richard III for example. He is known as an evil deformed hunchback in history. Shakespeare had popularized Richard III’s ‘deformed hunchback’ image by his famous historical tragedy titled “Richard III” where he was portrayed as a king who ruthlessly lies, murders, and manipulates, so many people had viewed Richard III like that. Shakespeare’s “Richard III” was one...
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...Frida Kahlo’s painting, Self-portrait along the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, depicts two very different worlds in the case of Mexico and the United States. Frida seems to be stuck between the worlds and her painting shows the differences between them and the feelings she has towards the two worlds. Through the colors used and images painted in Frida Kahlo’s portrait she is conveying her dislike of the U.S. and her love and favoritism for Mexico and its culture. The most eye catching part of Frida Kahlo’s portrait is the picture of herself in the center of the painting. She is painted in an elegant pink dress with white gloves. In one hand she holds a Mexican flag and in the other she has a lit cigarette. Cigarettes are often used as a sign of rebellion or disinterest towards something. It’s interesting that it’s somewhat pointed towards the American side of the painting. This is Khalo’s way of showing her love for her Mexican culture and demonstrating her displeasure with the United States. In her other...
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...and her sisters in their house to protect them from gunfire. It is also reported that Kahlo’s mother would house the less fortunate people that lived in the streets of their village in their house from ongoing fighting. At the young age of six Kahlo had contracted poliomyelitis, otherwise known as polio, affecting her nervous system and the growth of her body leaving her with one leg noticeably thinner than the other.(Collins) Kahlo also had experienced spina bifida, a defect affecting her brain and spinal cord as well as her bones.(Beaver)All the same this did not slow down the young Kahlo,said to be a tomboy, assumed the role as the son her parents wanted.(Collins)Kahlo frequently played physical contact sports like boxing. As a child Frida Kahlo aspired to be a doctor and study medicine.(Myers283)Being that her parents were the encouraging people that they were Guillermo and Matilde Kahlo enrolled their daughter in The Preparatoria in 1922. The Preparatoria was one of the most prestigious schools in Mexico, where Kahlo was a part of the small female student body containing thirty five girls. (Beaver)During her attendance at The Preparatoria Kahlo joined a teenage gang. It was then Kahlo fell for her first love,the head of the gang, Alejandro Gomez Arias. Soon after Kahlo found herself in many dangerous confrontations in and out of the gang, it became a regular occurrence for her to witness acts of violence. On September 17th,1925 Kahlo was involved in an accident when the bus...
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...Frida Kahlo was born in July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. Kahlo changed that she was born in 1910 so people would directly associate her with the revolution. She was the third of four sisters. The youngest sister was Cristina. When she was six, she was struck with poliomyelitis on her right leg. Poliomyelitis is an spreadable disease that affects the nervous system and can cause someone to be paralysis. Frida’s leg became skinny and was put to bed for nine months. Her leg caused her to limp when she walked, after she was recovered. In 1922, Frida enrolled at the National Preparatory School. She was studying to be a teacher. A painter named Diego Rivera painted a mural in her school. There was a rumor that she said that she would have his children....
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...Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon in Coyoacan, Mexico, July 6th, 1907. She was one of four daughters and was born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and mother of Spanish and Mexican Indian decent. In her first years she had never even thought of becoming an artist. At the age of 18 she was seriously injured in a bus accident. She spent over a year in bed recovering from fractures to her spine, collarbone, and ribs, a shattered pelvis, and shoulder and foot injuries. She endured more than 30 operations in her lifetime. During her recovery she began to paint. Her mom had made a special easel for her to use and her father gave her his oil paints and brushes. At the young age of 22 she married a famous Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, who happened to be 20 years her elder. Their relationship survived through infidelities, the pressure of careers, divorce, remarriage, Frida's bisexual affairs, her poor health, and her inability to have children. As an example of her problems and pain she once said, "I suffered two grave accidents in my life...one in which a streetcar knocked me down, and the other was Diego. Frida created around 200 paintings related both to her emotional pain and to her relationship with Diego. Out of the 200 paintings and drawings, 55 of them were self-portraits. Her self-portraits and still life were very naïve and filled with colors and forms of Mexican culture. In most of her self-portraits...
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...Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán. She was the third daughter of four to Guillermo, who was Hungarian and Jewish, and Matilda, who was Spanish and Mexican/Indian. She was a huge tomboy as a child, which led to her being her father’s favorite. She did, unfortunately, suffer from health problems her whole life. She was a survivor of polio, which left her with a limp. A train car accident at the age of eighteen seriously injured her pelvis, spine, collarbone, and right leg; and she contracted Gangrene, leading to the amputation of her right leg below the knee in 1953. She had over thirty surgeries in her lifetime and suffered painfully her whole life, mostly due to the train car accident. This tragic accident led to the...
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...One of my favorite female historical figures is Frida Kahlo. She was a Mexican painter best known for her self-portraits, relationship with Diego Rivera and health problems. At six years old, Frida developed polio, which caused a physical disfigurement of her legs that she eventually covered up with long, wide and colorful skirts. Her early life was very active and included many sports that were considered male dominated activities at the time such as boxing and bicycling. At the age of 18, she ended up in a serious accident with a bus and a trolley car that resulted in the breaking of her spinal column, collarbone, ribs and pelvis along with other fractures and dislocations. In addition to these injuries, a handrail was driven through her abdomen and uterus further preventing her from ever having children of her own. Along with the great physical pain of this accident, severe mental anguish plagued Frida. Her pain left her often times bedridden and barely able to move. To keep herself distracted from her pain, she began to paint, as it did not take much physical effort on her part. She primarily painted herself, sometimes in intense and superbly colorful environments and ways. Her portraits were always very honest and personal. They expressed her own pain as a woman and the physical trials her body had to endure such as her many miscarriages or her body in casts and restraints due to her accident. This is the aspect of Frida that always awed me, her ability to bare her soul...
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...McCracken Spanish 120B December 3, 2009 Through the eyes of tradition People express themselves in many different ways throughout their lives. Painters are known for using there past experiences to illustrate their lives and feelings. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter with a passion to paint. Her paintings portrayed very strong messages throughout her life including the tragic events that helped her shape who she was. In Julie Taymor’s film “Frida”: her private and professional life was depicted through different events. In this film as well as in people’s daily lives ethnicity is a factor, which, influences the actions and practices that construct your character. As Taymor opens the film with a scene of Frida laying on her bed to get to her exhibition, she shows how she never gave up on her commitment to what she started. As a result to a horrific accident that enables Frida from time to time in her life she starts painting portraits of her family and herself. Taymor shows the role of supra-ethnicity through the character of Kahlo using her lifestyle, clothing, and traditions. Taymor draws the viewers into this post-revolutionary era in Mexico by constructing Frida’s style of living in a different time. Through her life Frida dresses and acts out the role that the indigenous women in Mexico live by, but includes her own style to it. By using the traditional clothing of an indigenous woman she shows the beauty and empowerment that the women obtain. The lifestyle that...
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