...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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...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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...culture in which they were created” (Howells, 2003: 70) Fig1.1: Self Portrait with Necklace of Thorns, 1940, Oil on Canvas Fig. 1.2 Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed), 1932, Oil on Metal This paper will begin with a brief introduction of visual studies, painting in particular and go on to establish the fact that visual images not merely imitate reality but also inform the real world. When one views a painting, it is not complete objective view. There is a very thin line between objectivity and mind working under influence of ideologies. Complex interworking of representation of perceived reality by the painter, ideological approach of the viewer is at play, both, striving to figure out the real. The paper will try to analyze Frida Kahlo’s two paintings Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Humming Bird and Henry ford hospital, The Flying Bed under this lens. The term visual might seem to a layman too simplistic to be critically analyzed but the field of visual culture expands the scope of our ways of seeing and the perceptions that govern an individual's spectatorship. It is easy to define visual as "What is visible to eyes" but new vistas are opened when as students of visual studies we set to decipher the fact that our understanding of reality is primarily if not wholly based on our pre-conceived notions, acquired ideas, collective unconsciousness (Jung), ideologies etc. I call this method of visualizing as pre-conceived because it is governed by our societal...
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...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. Rivera made La Molendera in the year 1924, which was the time of The Immigration Act of 1924, (The Johnson- Reed Act). The Immigration Act limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. Rivera helped established the Mexican Mural Movement along with two other artists, which mainly existed to...
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...suffering of the people from a war or massacre. Lastly some artists like to show the world in a new way or show it how they view it from their own eyes. The two paintings i have chosen for this assignment are “The Two Fridas” and “The Persistence of Memory”. They are two of my favorites and I learned a lot about them while I was taking a Spanish class in high school. I do not know as much about them as I would like to but I do intend to spend the time learning about them. “The Two Fridas” painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939. She painted this shortly after divorcing Diego Rivera. When Frida painted the Two Fridas, the role that she was portraying was giving form to the intangibles. I say this because it is portraying her feelings about her divorces. When she was one person, the woman in the European dress, her husband of the time rejected her and betrayed her. When she was the woman in traditional dress, the woman on the right, he loved her. What she is showing is that both woman are connected because they are the same person. In the painting you can see that the Frida on the left is holding a pair of scissors. There is blood flowing down onto her dress from what appears to be a vein that she had intentionally severed from her other half, the Traditional Frida on the right. They are holding hands to show that she loves herself even...
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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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...At the Norton Simon Museum of Art, in Pasadena California, I was able to see Diego Rivera’s “The Flower Girl (Girl with Lilies)” on display. This painting was located in the “20th Century Galleries” section of the museum. All of the works in that are located in this section of the museum are considered modern art. The wall text gives a brief history of Diego Rivera’s life and describes what is being depicted in the painting, “Rivera entered art school at a very young age and moved to Europe in 1907. There he was deeply affected by the great Italian muralists and contemporary French painters. Returning home in 1921, he became a painter of murals, and over the next several years the direction of Mexican art changed dramatically under his leadership. During the 1930s, Rivera painted a number of large murals in the United States and had a major influence on American art, as the federal government began to fund the painting of large murals in public buildings. The theme of a flower vendor, dwarfed by a massive display of flowers, was one that Rivera painted many times.” Being able to see this painting in person at the museum was a serial experience, seeing it made it real and not just a painting I can see in a book or on a poster. I grew up admiring this painting at a family members house, who had a replica hung up in a one of their rooms. Visiting the museum inspired me to go visit other museums to see other painting that I admire. In “The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies)”, Diego...
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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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...On 16 December 2012, a twenty-three-year-old woman was being sexually violated and was abused by six men on a bus. Her condition drastically worsened as a result of her fatal injuries to the extend she had to move from Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital to Singapore hospital. Two weeks later, she succumb to severe internal injury. In India, women faced many culture challenges. “It’s really a constellation of factors hindering women’s rights, including gender sex selection, literacy, child marriage , and violence.” (Council on Foreign Relations, Beina Xu, 10 June 2013) Most raped go unrecorded, primarily because of cultural stigmas encircling such events that could bring humiliation to victims and their families. But those who report their cases will face a dehumanizing experiences. People in India oppose not only in retaliation of the incidents but to convey their exasperation toward how unfairly the women are treated especially in the case of rape, and the serious insufficiencies in the law and order. Men do not show any remorseful for the incident but instead they blame the women for not protecting herself and allow the rape to happen. Culture is the value, beliefs, language and norms that form the way of life in the society. On the other hand, Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine. Adjacent to these topics, women are treated unfairly in a particular incident. Sexism is one of the major issue that’s going on in India, where...
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...Kahlo grew up during the Mexican Revolution, she would repeatedly say that she was born three years later to have the same birth year as the start of the revolution in hopes to be directly associated with the revolution. (Stechler)Kahlo would then recall times where her mother had sheltered Kahlo 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...
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...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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...Tonita Vigil Peña, also known by her Pueblo Indian name of Quah Ah, was a prominent artist in the 1920’s and 1930’s. She was born on May 10, 1893 to Ascensión Vigil and Natividad Peña in San Ildefonso, New Mexico. Tonita lived their with her family until she was twelve years old, when her mother and younger sister died of influenza. Her father, unable to care for her, sent Tonita to Cochití Pueblo to live with her aunt, an accomplished Pueblo potter. Tonita lived there for the rest of her life and became a teacher at the Santa Fe Indian School and Albuquerque Indian School. She married three times over the course of her life, her first marriage at the age of fifteen and arranged by her village elders. Tonita gave birth to six children in all....
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...Frida Kahlo's, The Love Embrace of The Universe This paper explores the life and art works of Mexican Painter Frida Kahlo. Her work was very significant because it was influenced by the indigenous Mexican culture. Frida suffered a tragic accident at the age of 18 that changed the course of her life forever. After the streetcar accident in 1925, Frida was left disabled and started to paint during her recovery. She became the most celebrated female painter of all time. It is believed that her paintings were influenced by her husband Naturalist Diego Rivera. Many of Frida’s self-portrait paintings captured a life filled with pain and suffering. Frida Kahlo was considered a Surrealist artist. However, she denied being a true Surrealist and did not like to be compared to them. Frida Kahlo's, The Love Embrace of the Universe, is what I believe to be her interpretation of love. I see many forms of love in this particular painting, one form within another. In this paper I will explain the colors of her painting, the background of her painting, and the earth in the painting. Kahlo's paintings are rich in bright vibrant colors. The meaning of the colors used in her painting are what I think she uses to represent her paintings quit well. She uses green for good warm light, magenta; Aztec old tlapali blood of prickly pear, the brightest and oldest. She uses brown to represent moles, leaves and land on earth. Yellow represents madness, sickness and fear example the sun & joy. The cobalt...
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...Diego and I (1949) Frida Kahlo. Frida was such an amazing, inspiring, and creative artist, all her paintings had so much meaning about events that happened in her life. “Diego and I (1949)” is all about her and her husband Diego and what their relationship was truly about. Diego and Frida’s relationship had so many levels and each so full of pain or happiness. The thing I like most about this painting is that it shows the anguish that Frida has towards Diego Rivera. One key thing many people don’t know about Frida is that her husband cheated on her, constantly, and she knew that but still stayed with him. The significance of Frida’s painting is love and the joy and heartbreak it can cause. The meaning of Diego Rivera on Frida’s forehead is that she always has him on her mind and she loves him so deeply no matter how badly he hurts her, Diego is Frida’s third eye. Diego on the other hand, has an actual third eye resembling lying, and cheating, it shows that Diego does not think about Frida because if he did Frida would have painted herself on his forehead. The third eye references Frida made in her painting shows how their relationship works or how it was formed. The portrait includes a variety of symbols and objects including tears falling down her cheeks, a third on Diegos forehead, Diegos face on the middle of Fridas forehead, hair closing around Fridas neck and her mono-brow. The paint has been well blended and has been applied smoothly, but not to the extent that the portrait...
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...“en la tradición folklórica mexicana, los colibrís muerto eran símbolo de buena suerte”, pero a mismo tiempo se encuentra un gato negro al asecho del ave desde el hombro de Frida, lo cual refleja que la mala suerte esta presente por el divorcio. Otros simbolismos son el del mono que representa al diablo y que de hecho fue un regalo de Diego, y las mariposas que representan a la resurrección ya que esta comenzando una nueva etapa de su vida. Autorretrato Dedicado al Dr. Eloesser (1940) Este retrato lo pinto Frida para su mejor amigo y medico el Dr. Eloesser, el cual le ayudo con su tratamiento en la infección aguda de hongos que tenia su mano derecha, y por ayudarle en reconciliarce con Diego. Los aretes son fueron un regalo de Picasso, que hace alusión a los “milagraos” que son “piezas de marfil con la forma de la parte del cuerpo humano que la persona quiere sea curada”. El collar ahora representa el dolor que el doctor le quito. Autorretrato como Tehuana (1943) También conocido como “Diego en mis pensamientos”, este lo pinto después de que Diego continuara sus infidelidades. Ella simboliza su amor un tanto obsesivo al ponerse la imagen de Diego en la frente. También lleva un vestido de tehuana que el admiraba muchísimo y así seducirlo de nuevo. Pensando en la muerte (1943) Aquí Frida como en la obra anterior plasma lo que tiene en sus pensamientos y en este caso es la muerte que...
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