personalities. One is the traditional Frida in Tehuana costume, with a broken heart, sitting next to an independent, modern dressed Frida. In Frida's dairy, she wrote about this painting and said it is originated from her memory of an imaginary childhood friend. Later she admitted it expressed her desperation and loneliness with the separation from Diego. In this painting, the two Fridas are holding hands. They both have visible hearts and the heart of the traditional Frida is cut and torn open. The main
According to an article from The New York Times, Frida Kahlo once said, “My painting is real; it’s me, it’s my life” (Cotter). Her passion for art started after a terrible streetcar accident she continued to have critical health problems with her spine, right leg, and immune system which propelled her to create unique and eye-opening artwork. Frida overcame physical, mental and emotional problems, but not without a struggle. She portrays her struggles and trials through her artwork which gives an
herself naked and was split down the middle. Her spine seems to be shattered and there are nails all over her body. This is a representation of her constant pain and her physical constraints expressed in her art. In “The Wounded Deer (1946)”, Frida Kahlo painted a young deer with her head on it and was stabbed with arrows. The background is a forest of dead trees and broken tree branches; it symbolizes fear. Looking closer into the background, it shows a bright and stormy sky, which symbolizes hope
self-portraits in presence are those of Frida Kahlo. She has picked up the status of pop symbol after her death, and amid her lifetime She was known more for her personality and involvement with Diego Rivera than for her Craftsmanship. Be that as it may, in this article, I will intend to concentrate on her early life, the hardships that she embarked on, her marriage with Rivera, and the importance and impacts of her work, with an accentuation on her various self-pictures. Kahlo was a Mexican artist from the