Frida Kahlo
Art Essay – Frida Kahlo
The Mexican Surrealist artist, Frida Kahlo, uses her personal experience, marriage and tragedies to express her feelings and emotions in her artworks. The artworks, Recuerdo (Memory), Henry Ford Hospital and The Two Fridas, all use personal imagery, signs, symbols and everyday occurrences to show her experiences. Kahlo’s artworks are personal and thought provoking and have made her one of the 20th centuries most enduring and popular artists.
Frida Kahlo was born on the 6th July, 1907 in Mexico. When she was a young girl she suffered from polio. When she was 18, she and her boyfriend were involved in a bus accident. A metal pole pieced Frida Kahlo through her pelvis area. She suffered many injuries including a fractured spine, ribs, collarbone and pelvis. She endured more than thirty operations following the accident and was told she would be unable to have children. During her recovery in hospital, Kahlo began painting. She painted mainly self-portraits using a mirror above her hospital bed.
Frida Kahlo married at 22 to a man called Diego Rivera. Their relationship was plagued with divorce, affairs and Kahlo’s inability to have children. Frida Kahlo suffered from gangrene in the years before her death which resulted in her having her right leg amputated below the knee. Kahlo died on the 13th July, 1954. She painted about 200 artworks and held many exhibitions over the course of her life.
Recuerdo (Memory) is a very symbolic artwork painted by Frida Kahlo in 1937. It describes her pain when her husband, Diego, had an affair with Frida Kahlo’s sister, Cristina.
Although her face appears expressionless, the tears pouring down her face reveals that she suffering from immense emotional pain. The tears may also represent her physical pain at having a metal rod piece her chest and her heart being ripped out. Her broken heart now lies at her feet. The size of her heart emphasises the sheer intensity of the pain she is experiencing from Diego
The Mexican Surrealist artist, Frida Kahlo, uses her personal experience, marriage and tragedies to express her feelings and emotions in her artworks. The artworks, Recuerdo (Memory), Henry Ford Hospital and The Two Fridas, all use personal imagery, signs, symbols and everyday occurrences to show her experiences. Kahlo’s artworks are personal and thought provoking and have made her one of the 20th centuries most enduring and popular artists.
Frida Kahlo was born on the 6th July, 1907 in Mexico. When she was a young girl she suffered from polio. When she was 18, she and her boyfriend were involved in a bus accident. A metal pole pieced Frida Kahlo through her pelvis area. She suffered many injuries including a fractured spine, ribs, collarbone and pelvis. She endured more than thirty operations following the accident and was told she would be unable to have children. During her recovery in hospital, Kahlo began painting. She painted mainly self-portraits using a mirror above her hospital bed.
Frida Kahlo married at 22 to a man called Diego Rivera. Their relationship was plagued with divorce, affairs and Kahlo’s inability to have children. Frida Kahlo suffered from gangrene in the years before her death which resulted in her having her right leg amputated below the knee. Kahlo died on the 13th July, 1954. She painted about 200 artworks and held many exhibitions over the course of her life.
Recuerdo (Memory) is a very symbolic artwork painted by Frida Kahlo in 1937. It describes her pain when her husband, Diego, had an affair with Frida Kahlo’s sister, Cristina.
Although her face appears expressionless, the tears pouring down her face reveals that she suffering from immense emotional pain. The tears may also represent her physical pain at having a metal rod piece her chest and her heart being ripped out. Her broken heart now lies at her feet. The size of her heart emphasises the sheer intensity of the pain she is experiencing from Diego