What Is Frida Kahlo's Reality?
“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality”,Frida said. This tells us that her art is not some work of fiction story but her reality. The origin of the story of her painting is her life, not a nightmare that you experience just when you sleep at night and dream about it but it is her reality that she faces in her everyday life. Her art shows her emotions she carries over the years of her life. In this essay I will be talking about her cultural identity, life and art. Find out the journey of her life and how she became the Frida Kahlo that we all know. Know what she has been through in her life and how everything changed because of art. Nice introduction
Frida Kahlo is a Mexican. She loves to wear flamboyant clothes, a floor-length …show more content…
Unfortunately her life was full of misery. She was crippled at the age of 19 and that caused her not to be able to walk. She experienced physical suffering and to entertain herself from sadness she began painting. She expressed her feelings by painting whatever comes through her mind. That was how art transformed her life. Art was simply her life. She married Diego Rivera but their relationship didn’t go well. She has a peculiar love for spectacle she used it as a mask to preserve her privacy and personal dignity. Her life is full of sorrow and sadness. Her paintings were so original and dramatic. She held her first major exhibition of paintings in her native Mexico. Her health had deteriorated at that time. At 8:00 P.M., just after the exhibition was opened for public she was sent to a hospital. She was wearing her favorite Mexican costume while she was carried on a hospital stretcher to her four-poster bed, that was bedecked with photographs of her husband and of her political heroes. Less than a year before she hospitalized she passed away on July 13, 1954 at the age of 48. Her exotic personality was celebrated rather than her own art. She was considered a legend, her paintings was one of the most original and dramatic imagery of the twentieth
Frida Kahlo is a Mexican. She loves to wear flamboyant clothes, a floor-length …show more content…
Unfortunately her life was full of misery. She was crippled at the age of 19 and that caused her not to be able to walk. She experienced physical suffering and to entertain herself from sadness she began painting. She expressed her feelings by painting whatever comes through her mind. That was how art transformed her life. Art was simply her life. She married Diego Rivera but their relationship didn’t go well. She has a peculiar love for spectacle she used it as a mask to preserve her privacy and personal dignity. Her life is full of sorrow and sadness. Her paintings were so original and dramatic. She held her first major exhibition of paintings in her native Mexico. Her health had deteriorated at that time. At 8:00 P.M., just after the exhibition was opened for public she was sent to a hospital. She was wearing her favorite Mexican costume while she was carried on a hospital stretcher to her four-poster bed, that was bedecked with photographs of her husband and of her political heroes. Less than a year before she hospitalized she passed away on July 13, 1954 at the age of 48. Her exotic personality was celebrated rather than her own art. She was considered a legend, her paintings was one of the most original and dramatic imagery of the twentieth