How Did Frida Khalo Influence Her Work

Frida khalo has changed the word by speaking her mind through art Within her short life, Frida was slightly crippled from polio, she also suffered from a street car accident and was left infertile. Her work was influenced by traumatic events and from her pain she created art. Many of her paintings were self-portraits, and the way she painted and the things she depicted liberating and interesting for many women's . She was an intelligent woman in a society that wanted women to be pretty, submissive wives and mothers. Her struggle with cultural demands of her gender in a time where women were demanding a change in their role. I find this to be very revolutionary for a woman of her time, no other woman had the courage to stand up for
Often times she has been criticized for focusing too much in her work instead of being the docile wife expected of her. She dealt with the interrelationship between the personal and the political, Which made her marriage really hard. Many of her painting dealt with her being a woman and the things women have to go through and man don’t. Just like her painting “My Birth” where frida draws herself being born. In this painting the head of Kahlo, with closed eyes, is coming out from between a woman's outstretched legs.
Through a woman's consciousness Kahlo brings to center stage the process of birth in which women, not men, play a dominant role. Just like a woman can give birth, they can also go through not being able to have a kid of their own. After her terrible car accident and her broke spine doctors told Frida that she will never carry a pregnancy even though the doctors warned her about the situation frida got pregnant but just like the doctors told her she had a miscarriage.
After the terrible pain Frida began work on a series of masterpieces which has no precedent in the history of art paintings which exalted the feminine qualities of endurance of truth, reality, cruelty, and
Maybe that's the reason why Khalo was understood by many not just by woman but by man as well. All the negativity and betrayal she had been bottling up finally comes out in art like blood gushing out of a deep flesh wound.
I think Frida best depicts her physical pain through a piece called “The Broken Columns” this surrealistic painting shows a partially nude Frida wearing a steel corset because the column that makes up her spine is broken and weak. She is also covered in nails, all different shapes and size showing us the areas that bothered her the most or also symbolizing all the invasive surgeries. In this portrait Frida is crying because she is seemingly deteriorating and she knows that she must deal with her pain alone and in her own way. Pain is all Frida ever really knew which is extremely evident in her works, she would try and learn from her experiences but ultimately was not afraid because she already knew the true meaning of pain.
She dealt with insecurities just like any human being, Her portraits speak about love and despair and loneliness and pain but there’s always an underlying sense of pride and defiance in all of her