Essays on Frida Kahlo

Annotated Bibliography

Gilbert, S.F., and S. Brauckmann. "Fertilization Narratives in the art of Gustav Klimt, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo: Repression, Domination and Eros among Cells." Leonardo 44, no. 3, 2011: 221-227.

The abovementioned source is a journal article and is written by Scott F. Gilbert. The author uses various books written by different writers in this article. This article presents a study of fertilization narratives and connects them with social and political ideas. The author describes how Gustav Klimt used fertilization theory to describe repression by governments. This article is very useful for students of art, political science and sociology. The ...

After the century in which Vincent van Gogh lived, the early twentieth century was a period of continuous change in politics, economy, and society. The revolutionized printing press liberated the people’s minds from the curtains of naiveté and transformed the society into a modernized culture where freedom of expression is highly valued. Frida Kahlo was a female Mexican artist who often noted through her expressive self-portraits which are characterized by her solid and thick eyebrows similar to a man. Her paintings reflect the pain, her dreams, and her life hidden from the public view.

The Life and Works of Frida Kahlo

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon was born ...

The relationship between politics and art is a multifaceted and delicate one. Many define Art as the definitive exercise of liberty and, therefore, the most political of statements feasible. There exists a deep relationship between arts and politics. Politics is mostly comprised of writing, talking, decision-making, and speeches delivery while, on the other hand, art teaches you the skills required so as to speak resourcefully, making the best decisions, and write correctly-also defined as the conscious use of skills and artistic imagination particularly in the creation of artistic objects. In my observation, art is by its very nature political and every ...

Women in art have always been a very mysterious and intriguing object to observe, both from the perspective of women as an object and a subject for the painting. Mona Lisa is possibly the most recognized painting in the world. She still puzzles its every observer with her gaze and feeble smile, welcoming him to silent communication. Frida Kahlo is the world’s most recognized woman artist. However, she neither invites for silent conversation in her Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, nor does she puzzle the observer. What Frida does, is pictures her soul openly and frankly, not hiding anything, not leaving ...

Film Studies

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The issue of gender-based behavioral patterns has always been a point of artistic interest. After cinematography emerged as an independent kind of art and a cultural phenomenon, it also started viewing them as a mean to increase attractiveness and interest for the media. This essay is aimed at pointing out the main examples of female characters who express certain elements of what is commonly perceived as male behavior, sort them out and determine whether there is a certain trend towards “masculinization” of the females. In order to perform a deep and thoughtful analysis of the issue, certain ...

The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption is possibly one of the greatest films ever made – a stunning tale of redemption, humanity and perseverance, I simply can’t recommend it enough. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman’s central performances are incredible, but they’re also bolstered by a very strong supporting case (Gil Bellows, Jeff DeMunn, and others) who flesh out the complex life of this prison and the small mini-society that is built up there. Darabont’s stately direction turns what could be a nasty, brutish prison film into an elegant statement on the power of the human will to endure even ...

If you believe the archaeologists and historians, art itself emerged in the Upper Paleolithic. In those days, a woman was the personification of the continuation of life and fertility - hence hypertrophy secondary sexual characteristics of Paleolithic Venuses. Ancient "Venus" - are usually small figurines from mammoth ivory, antler, stone, clay and ash. Sculptures made of clay mixtures are the most ancient examples of ceramics. Primitive female figures, being very far from real resemblance to nature (a statement of this fact are some rock paintings depicting women muscular and mobile), they suggest that primitive sculptors created image of the character, summarizing ...

A sensitive, yet realistic movie about the life and work of a popular Mexican artist, “Frida” tells the story of Frida Kahlo, a young woman who begins to paint after a trolley accident in which she was badly injured, bringing her close to her death. Although she felt the consequences of that accident throughout her life through insupportable pain, she managed to fight death with creativity, internal emotion, passion, inner feelings and talent, becoming a painter. The movie presents some of her works, which indicate a strong style, vivid passion and intense emotions, marked through the use of strong, dark colors. Likewise, Kahlo’s paintings also ...

Abstract refers to taking and object as the subject and manipulating it. Abstract’s desired goal of always seeing something new in terms of art and its subject matter (Mathis). This idea can be seen in the painting “The Two Fridas” by Frida Kahlo with its thematic connections including abstract modernism, subjects drawn from influences of society, abstract messages through iconography, and humor. Frida Kahlo gives the viewer in her oil on canvas painting, “The Two Fridas” another look at her personal expression of the inner woman as no other female artist before in her over 200 works. This ...

When I first saw the 1931 portrait of Frida and Diego, I was impressed by its symmetry. I’m not talking necessarily about visual symmetry to do with equal sides of a exacting mirror image. I’m speak about the pairing between uneven forms. For me, the portrait is a representation of forged strength. It’s about the whole of the parts that is balanced on strength of a group. Notice that Frida is small. She is light and dainty compared to Diego’s large, sturdy, rectangularity. She is traditional and idle with her shawl and dress, doll-like feet and tilted head— ...

Introduction

“The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego and Señor Xólot” is a 1949 painting that extensive expresses the many elements of the diverse themes around the global view. The painter of the piece of art who was born on July 6, 1907 and her sunset was on 1954. She illustrates a competent and talented painter who vividly brings the various themes in the world of art in a manner that depicts the maturity and how engraved she has mastered the subject. Relative, the drawing illustrates the many diverse elements of the ancient Mexican mythology. This ...

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in the small town of Coyoacan. She lived between 1907 and 1954 to a Mexican mother and a German-Jewish father. She is well-known for her Feminist-fuelled paintings and particularly for her self-portraits. Kahlo used these works to help her find her identity which also explains why they are all quite similar. So as to best express herself, Kahlo created her own language of symbols which had its own vocabulary and syntax; and when translated, they reveal a vast amount of insight into her work ethos and meaning. It is said that her work should be viewed ...