Frida Kahlo Analysis
The Surreal Life of Frida Kahlo
“They thought I was surrealist. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo
Surrealism was inspired by the burgeoning science of psychology, especially its concept that the mind was made up of both conscious and subconscious parts. Surrealism involved freeing the unconscious realm of dreams and neurosis by combining images from the actual world and arranging them in such way that “worked against the logical and rational processes of making meaning.” (Sturken and Martin 463) The Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo was described as a self-invented Surrealist when her work was first introduced in a Western exhibition. However, the images presented in her paintings were too closely connected to …show more content…
The painting was completed after her divorce to Diego Rivera, another Mexican artist that had a great influence in her life. In the painting, two representations of Kahlo sit side by side with their hands joined in a stiff clasped with open hearts displayed outside of their bodies. The Frida on the right, the loved Frida wears Mexican clothes. Her skin is dark and her heart is complete and whole. In her hands she holds a miniature portrait of Diego Rivera from which a cord resembling a vein flows towards her heart. The Frida on the left, the unloved Frida wears a Western styled Victorian dress with paler skin. At the chest her dress is torn and displays a heart that has been cut out. Her hand holds a pair of scissors that appears to cut off blood to portrait of …show more content…
She practiced cultural appropriation by incorporated symbols and art from her Mexican roots. In Two Fridas, she displays her love for Mexico by displaying the loved Frida with a traditional Mexican dress. She had a fascination with Pre-Columbian art and amassed a large collection, which she felt was “a true wellspring for modern art.” (Ben Davis) “The symbols of Aztec culture -- the stepped pyramids, the sun and the moon, stone masks, images of indigenous people -- recur frequently.” (Davis) These Mexican traditional influences contrasted against the conditions of the emerging industrialized modern
“They thought I was surrealist. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo
Surrealism was inspired by the burgeoning science of psychology, especially its concept that the mind was made up of both conscious and subconscious parts. Surrealism involved freeing the unconscious realm of dreams and neurosis by combining images from the actual world and arranging them in such way that “worked against the logical and rational processes of making meaning.” (Sturken and Martin 463) The Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo was described as a self-invented Surrealist when her work was first introduced in a Western exhibition. However, the images presented in her paintings were too closely connected to …show more content…
The painting was completed after her divorce to Diego Rivera, another Mexican artist that had a great influence in her life. In the painting, two representations of Kahlo sit side by side with their hands joined in a stiff clasped with open hearts displayed outside of their bodies. The Frida on the right, the loved Frida wears Mexican clothes. Her skin is dark and her heart is complete and whole. In her hands she holds a miniature portrait of Diego Rivera from which a cord resembling a vein flows towards her heart. The Frida on the left, the unloved Frida wears a Western styled Victorian dress with paler skin. At the chest her dress is torn and displays a heart that has been cut out. Her hand holds a pair of scissors that appears to cut off blood to portrait of …show more content…
She practiced cultural appropriation by incorporated symbols and art from her Mexican roots. In Two Fridas, she displays her love for Mexico by displaying the loved Frida with a traditional Mexican dress. She had a fascination with Pre-Columbian art and amassed a large collection, which she felt was “a true wellspring for modern art.” (Ben Davis) “The symbols of Aztec culture -- the stepped pyramids, the sun and the moon, stone masks, images of indigenous people -- recur frequently.” (Davis) These Mexican traditional influences contrasted against the conditions of the emerging industrialized modern