Better known as Frida Kahlo, but she -was- married to the artist Diego Rivera. I thought about featuring them both in this assignment, but I much prefer Frida’s work. She was considered a surrealist painter but a lot of her paintings are not quite as abstract as some other surrealist painters like Salvador Dali (another great artist). When she was young Kahlo was involved in a catastrophic bus accident that left her with many shattered bones and 30 operations. During this time she began to paint and explore herself as both a person and an artist. A majority of her paintings are depictions of herself, self portraits. In each painting however there is a story that she was trying to convey and tell of her suffering while she was recovering. Here are a few examples of her wonderful work.
Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, painted in 1940. Kahlo was best known for painting self-portraits (self-centered, you might think). But the reality is that Kahlo’s work was produced while she was bed-ridden and injured. She states: “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best”. If you look closely in this image she is bleeding from her neck and the wounds are caused by thorns, and there is a black bird hanging from the middle. I like this picture because of the color pallate and the setting. The greens in the picture are not bright, but are a dull green, and all the black paint used in the painting stands out a lot when projected against the green.
Without Hope (Sin Esperanza), painted in 1945. This was a painting she did while she was recovering from the accident. My guess is that the stuff coming out of her mouth is her stomach contents. She could have been trying to portray that she was vomiting a lot or not eating and the skull representing possible death.
Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
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Without Hope
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Frida Kahlo
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Karolina in Alaska 
Frieda Kahlo has some seriously odd pieces. Not bad, but intentionally disturbing. The “Without Hope” piece is a very good example of this. It’s not really evident what is going on in the piece, and it might have been nice to look up some short articles on the piece so as to give a slightly more in depth explanation. You did a very good job of giving Kahlo’s history, as the accident appears to have been very important to her pieces. The addition of the quote was also a nice touch.
Good job explaining the self portrait of herself. But first when I quick glance at the picture, for some reason I got confuse a little bit. I though that I was looking a male because it’s almost look like she has a mustache. Good information about Frieda Kahlo, also the self portrait of her is different from other self portrait that I had seen before. I mean I feel there is something to it that make different from other artist that do some kind of human portrait. Maybe because how she paint herself was different from other, how she chose the background and stuff.