Brutally honest self portraits that reveal her psychological response to adversity.
Herrera: Yeah. I've always felt that from the very beginning Frida Kahlo's self-portraits were a way of attaching people to her. They often were gifts for friends, and she would want to keep herself in somebody's mind. It's interesting that she would paint Diego on her mind painting Diego's image in her forehead. Many of Frida's paintings, especially the self-portraits, capture her own personal emotions and feelings about an event or crisis in her life: her physical condition, her inability to have children, her philosophy of nature and life and most of all her turbulent relationship with Diego. FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954). 'Self Portrait', 1940 (oil on board). Frida Kahlo, Mexico's greatest female artist, painted brutally honest self portraits that reveal her psychological response to adversity. She was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City. Frida Kahlo and her paintings. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her self-portraits, pain and passion, and bold, vibrant colors. She is celebrated in Mexico for her attention to Mexican and indigenous culture and by feminists for her depiction of the female experience and form. Frida used this motif in several of her paintings, first in Self-Portrait-Time Files (1929), and later in Portrait of a Woman in White (1930), Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky (1937) and others as well. I paint self-portraits because I am the person I know best. I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to and I paint whatever passes through my head without any consideration.. This statement captures the essence of Frida Kahlo s work. In her second self-portrait, Time Flies, Frida employs the Mexicanism style. In this portrait the motif has taken on a very folkloric style with vivid and varied colors. Simple cotton peasant clothes replace the sophisticated Renaissance velvet dresses that adorned the subjects of her previous paintings. Frida's father, a professional photographer by trade, was also an amateur painter. It was he who first sparked Frida's interest in art. Frida would often accompany her father on his painting excursions into the nearby country side. He also taught her how to use the camera and how to retouch and color photographs. The subjects of her paintings from this point onwards deal increasingly with her feelings about loss, infertility, pain and alienation. FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954). 'Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird' 1940 (oil on canvas). The fusion of Christian and Aztec imagery is common in Mexican culture.
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