Kahlo Vs Picasso

Born July 6, 1907 in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón began life with great struggle. Kahlo’s mother, too ill to care for or feed her newborn, hired an Indian wet-nurse to breastfeed and care for the newborn. Kahlo was raised in the family’s home where she was born, later named La Casa Azul (The Blue House). Polio caused Kahlo to lose a great deal of control over her right leg and foot, but did not slow the adventurous child. During her youth Kahlo studied photography in her father’s studio, learning to use the camera, develop, retouch and color photographs and later studied commercial printmaking as a paid apprentice to her father’s close friend, Fernando Fernandez. However, it was while enrolled at The
Each portrait contains not only an amazing likeness to each person, but also details objects or subtle hints into who the individual was and what attracted Kahlo to paint the. This quality is one of the great things that attracts me to Kahlo. While complex and abstract the pieces and understandable. They require some insight or thought, but overly secretive in their meaning. The emotion is obvious, making the person within the portrait as well as the artist herself real to me. Kahlo use of oil on canvas for the majority of these pieces also adds the charm. The various lines and brush strokes used demonstrates her exceptional attention to detail and individual credit to each piece.
In 1937 Kahlo and Rivera housed Soviet communist Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia after they received asylum in Mexico. Once a rival of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Leon feared that he would be assassinated. It has been suggested that Kahlo and Trotsky had an affair during this time. Kahlo completed Self Portrait Very Ugly (1933) which is believed to be a possible reflection at her disgust for her actions. Kahlo threw the piece in the trash once completed, however it was recovered by a friend of hers who later mounted it on masonite
I admire Kahlo’s work so greatly because I feel as though each brush stroke meant something. It represented pain, friendship, life and the revolution of the soul. With each painting Kahlo left a piece of herself in this world, a women’s life in oil paints full of color and vibrancy. Frida Kahlo told the story of her life in her paintings I have no doubt that these final strokes were her last message to the world. We should live the