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…
native Mexican costume to hide her sadness and inwardness. Some children used to follow her in the street and they would ask “where’s the circus?” she didn’t mind a bit but of course it leave her a sadness in her heart. It was a self-obsession to her. Frida Kahlo was born on July 06, 1907.
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
century. Art transformed her life, it made her feel that she has someone to tell her feelings. She began painting during her convalescence. She said that she painted anything that comes through her mind without any other consideration. At first her painting was ignored. But as time came her paintings were recognized because people can relate and see the emotions that overflows with her works.They can feel that it is so much specific and personal. It also feels extraordinary because it is original and dramatic. Her painting became her autobiography and it has a peculiar intensity and strength. She even painted herself bleeding, weeping and cracked-open. She transformed her pain into a humour and fantasy because she wants to cover the pain she feels. At her first major exhibition of her paintings on July 13,1954, her art was almost consist of self-portraits. Majority of her paintings were so tiny. On that day they celebrated her exotic and extraordinary personality instead of her art. In conclusion, art made Frida Kahlo inspired to continue living. She feels comfort as she paints and that she is not alone. Painting made her feel that it is better to just express your feelings rather than keeping it.
Frida Kahlo is a Mexican. She loves to wear flamboyant clothes, a floor-length …show more content…
native Mexican costume to hide her sadness and inwardness. Some children used to follow her in the street and they would ask “where’s the circus?” she didn’t mind a bit but of course it leave her a sadness in her heart. It was a self-obsession to her. Frida Kahlo was born on July 06, 1907.
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
century. Art transformed her life, it made her feel that she has someone to tell her feelings. She began painting during her convalescence. She said that she painted anything that comes through her mind without any other consideration. At first her painting was ignored. But as time came her paintings were recognized because people can relate and see the emotions that overflows with her works.They can feel that it is so much specific and personal. It also feels extraordinary because it is original and dramatic. Her painting became her autobiography and it has a peculiar intensity and strength. She even painted herself bleeding, weeping and cracked-open. She transformed her pain into a humour and fantasy because she wants to cover the pain she feels. At her first major exhibition of her paintings on July 13,1954, her art was almost consist of self-portraits. Majority of her paintings were so tiny. On that day they celebrated her exotic and extraordinary personality instead of her art. In conclusion, art made Frida Kahlo inspired to continue living. She feels comfort as she paints and that she is not alone. Painting made her feel that it is better to just express your feelings rather than keeping it.