Frida Kahlo's Love Embrace Of The Universe
Frida’s Reality by Alfonso Gonzalez Montesinos
Based on Frida Kahlo’s “Love Embrace of the Universe”
Frida Kahlo, the now renowned Mexican artist whose artistic expression, in my opinion, is as clear as her tragic life if one digs deep enough. A woman born during a period of political chaos in her country, a rebellious and injured soul who saw and lived life according to her own rules during a period in history in which women had no voice. As I stare into her eyes, I try to search and place myself inside her art to better understand what I see and listen to her voice through her images.
Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon was born in 1907 in Coyoacan, at that time, a small city in the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father was a German immigrant and her mother of Spanish/Mexican descent. Kahlo grew up during the civil unrest of the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910 and lasted almost a decade. The Mexican Revolution began from the belief …show more content…
She contracted polio at age six and suffered an extremely serious accident at age eighteen, which ultimately crippled her for the rest of her life and brought her countless relapses of pain, requiring more than 35 surgeries. The accident also left Frida unable to bear children, at a time where that was the main purpose of women. It is well known that many of her frustrations find their roots in this tragic accident and the impact it had on her life.
As I look and learn about Frida Kahlo’s factual universe, I gaze at “Love Embrace of the Universe” and can’t help the feeling of not only observing, but being able to listen and sense what this embrace is supporting and the universe that surrounds it. It seems more like a daydream than a painting, the world as we know it uprooted in the hands of a mysterious celestial figure. The shocking color contrast, and the mystifying lost gazes of the pictured figures. They are all pieces of a whole, and the whole is an intense
Based on Frida Kahlo’s “Love Embrace of the Universe”
Frida Kahlo, the now renowned Mexican artist whose artistic expression, in my opinion, is as clear as her tragic life if one digs deep enough. A woman born during a period of political chaos in her country, a rebellious and injured soul who saw and lived life according to her own rules during a period in history in which women had no voice. As I stare into her eyes, I try to search and place myself inside her art to better understand what I see and listen to her voice through her images.
Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon was born in 1907 in Coyoacan, at that time, a small city in the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father was a German immigrant and her mother of Spanish/Mexican descent. Kahlo grew up during the civil unrest of the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910 and lasted almost a decade. The Mexican Revolution began from the belief …show more content…
She contracted polio at age six and suffered an extremely serious accident at age eighteen, which ultimately crippled her for the rest of her life and brought her countless relapses of pain, requiring more than 35 surgeries. The accident also left Frida unable to bear children, at a time where that was the main purpose of women. It is well known that many of her frustrations find their roots in this tragic accident and the impact it had on her life.
As I look and learn about Frida Kahlo’s factual universe, I gaze at “Love Embrace of the Universe” and can’t help the feeling of not only observing, but being able to listen and sense what this embrace is supporting and the universe that surrounds it. It seems more like a daydream than a painting, the world as we know it uprooted in the hands of a mysterious celestial figure. The shocking color contrast, and the mystifying lost gazes of the pictured figures. They are all pieces of a whole, and the whole is an intense