Essays on Frida Kahlo

“Frida Kahlo: Little People, Big Dreams” by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Gee Fan Eng examines the competencies, skills, and conducts of some of some interesting individuals that had big ambitions and dreams (Vegara and Eng, 2016). The authors underline the fact that big dreams can always be achieved through effort, commitment, and handwork. Particularly, the book focuses on Frida Kahlo and provides in-depth facts and illustrations about her life and achievements. The book narrates and interesting story of a young girl who was special from the beginning (Vegara and Eng, 2016). Unfortunately, she contracted polio at a tender age ...

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Frida Kahlo is a name that is associated with physical and emotional pain. The famous Mexican painter is well known for her self-portraits. The paper takes two of her artworks, her “Self Portrait with Loose Hair” and “A Few Small Nips” and discusses as to why they are important works to display in an exhibition. Her artworks reflect her pain and despite her limited mobility, the determined artist continued to paint. The essay offers a full explanation of the significance of her works giving historical context for understanding the artist and her work. Her canvases show her affinity for ...

Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist, was born on in the house of her parents, known as Casa Azul – the Blue House – in town Coyoacan, the suburb of Mexico City. Her father - Wilhelm Kahlo – had German roots, moved to Mexico in his early age. Her mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez had mixed Spanish and Indian roots. At the age of six, she has contracted the polio, which has made her to stay in bed for nine months. This disease has made her right leg and foot grow much thinner than her left one. She had to limp after the ...

California' is a novel and the works of an American author Edan Lepucki. Due to the authors’ style of writing and themes involved, the novel’s description is a "post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction," since it involves two characters, Cal, and Frida, who move from Los Angeles to the wilderness of the post-apocalyptic California. Frida Ellis and Calvin Friedman are the main characters in ‘California.’ The two are young lovers who escape from Los Angeles, which is falling apart to Northern California and become foragers and farmers as they live in an abandoned house. There are also places for the wealthy, ...

The essay looks at Frida Kahlo's work and her choice of media for her artworks. The purpose is to assess one of the most important artists of the twentieth century and how her artwork reflects on the painful experiences in her life. Frida Kahlo was brought up in a male-dominated Mexican society, but she was a free-thinking spirit, ready to take on the world. However, disaster struck, and she was left with a shattered spine and life because of a horrific traffic accident. Those long hospital stays and pain cast life long shadows in her life which was marred ...

“Two Fridas” by Frida Kahlo. 1939. One of the most easily recognizable Mexican women of the twentieth century – Frida Kahlo, whose life was full of suffering and problems managed to find an escape in her paintings (Friis 53). She predominantly pictured herself in her works, for she said it is the subject she knows best. She never smiled in her paintings. Her face looks practically the same; serious, even sorrowful with bushy eyebrows grown together, faint tendrils over tight lips. It is the scenery and the objects around that change and add story to the images. Objects were recovered ...

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Surrealist is the work of art that has its roots in the early 1920s it was aimed at creating a connection between what most people referred to as dreams and fantasies to the reality. Surrealist work of art was designed to create a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious features of experiences to build absolute reality from primary imagination. Surrealist work of art developed from psychological processes and not any logical and rational process. Surrealist work art was aimed at establishing an evaluation of psychic characteristics (Barr, Alfred Hamilton, and Georges Hugnet). To develop psychic responses in the ...

There are very few artists who could transform their pain and suffering into a work of art, and it would not be wrong to say that Frida Kahlo is one of them. She was born in Mexico in the year 1907, on July 6th to Matilde Calderon and Guillermo Kahlo (Haye 1). Her mother was from Spain and father had a Hungarian German origin. Frida was infected with polio when she was around seven years old which left a limp in her right leg. The major setback in her life was caused by an accident at the age of ...

News occurs on a daily basis in different time zones. Its development is quite fast that an individual cannot keep track of what is happening at any given time. Hence, media houses provide a summary of what happens in the world to the common user. Since the introduction of media houses, more people tend to cling on their stories as a source of information. Although most of the time their facts are right sometimes writers make up stories. In a way, they act as the reader’s eyes and feed them information as per their perspective. However, conflicting stories ...

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The 5-portioned documentary called Sweatshop: Deadly Fashion presented pressing and critical issues concerning society and humanity. This specific series focused on struggling citizens in Cambodia, but represents other countries where majority of the citizens suffer in poverty, prejudice and terrible governance – especially third world countries for that matter. In a span of days, this project managed to drastically change the perception of three magnificently well-off teenagers who lived life easily in their hometown-comfort-zone Norway. Miles away from home, these three wealthy Norwegian citizens named Frida, Ludvig and Anniken took time to be in an immersion and see how life ...

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 ...

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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— ...

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“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 ...