Name: Harley Hodge
Teacher: Ms. keever
Class:Art 111
Art peice:Las Dos Fridas (The Two Fridas)
Artist: Frida Kahlo
Date of made: 1939 date: 11/5/2017
-What is the subject matter? Describe the piece in detail an oil painting of two Fridas, one in a white dress the other in a dark green skirt with a blue and yellow striped shirt. There hearts are exposed with one vein connecting the two fridas. The white dressed fridas heat and white detail in it and, the green skirted fridas has a plan red heart. The heart one the fridas wearing the white dress has another one that goes to her lap but not around her arm, it be cut or clapped shut. The fridas in the green skirt as another vain wrapped around her left arm and fading back to the arm. There also
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But she still bleeding and is in danger of bleeding to death, showing her love her him is still there as much wish to stop it and it’s distorting her. www.fridakahlo.org state “The stormy sky filled with agitated clouds may reflect Frida's inner turmoil. ”. storm often do depict troubling feeling and there divorce and his affair caused great pain for fridas.
-How does the piece reflect the time period in which it was created? Is it part of particular movement in art history? If so, which one? Does it reflect a cultural or religious idea? Explain.
The painting The Two Fridas, 1939 by Frida Kahlo isn’t part of any particular movement but it and her other work did have a cultural influences and impacted. /www.khanacademy.org states that she was a “rebellious loner, often dressed in indigenous clothing.” while women of the time “wore elaborate hairstyles, hosiery, and attire”. The way she dressed wasn’t the only way she was a rebel.she was an artist in a time were middle-class women gave up their motivation to live in the domestic sphere. These action and other by her made flutes both conventions of beauty and social expectations of
Block and Hoffman-Jeep’s journal article served as the inspiration for the thesis concerning Frida Kahlo’s fashion and persona as opposed to the one crafter by mass media, imperialist magazine producers. Due to the in depth analysis of photos taken of Frida through the 1930s, and analysis of her paintings which portray Frida between America and Mexico shows the influential imaginary wall between American culture and Mexican Culture; and the divergence in historic paths. While Mexican politics have experienced a large amount of turmoil throughout history, Frida was
Frida was an amazing artist and courageous women. Through all the heartaches and tragedies she went through during her life, she managed to stay strong and follow her dreams of being a well know artist and painter. She was a beautiful and incredible artist with such creativity and heart. To see such raw emotion come from someone who went through hell and back, she remained true to herself. I wish I had half the passion she did for life.
Both Frida and Diego had affairs and a lot of the damage that Diego inflicted on Frida emotionally went straight to her paintings
Kate Chopin’s “The Storm”, is a story filled with metaphorical references between a thunderstorm of rain and a thunderstorm of passion. Calixta, Bobinot, and Bibi led, what one would assume to be, a rather normal life. While Bobinot and Bibi are in town shopping they notice a storm approaching, and “Bobinot, who was accustomed to converse on terms of perfect equality with his little son, called the child’s attention to certain sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from the west, accompanied by a sullen, threatening roar.” However, a moment a Mother Nature’s fury unleashed a wealth of passion between Calixta and her former beau Alcee Laballiere.
It’s clear at this point that Frida always mixed in her paintings symbols recalling her personal life, all the pain she went through connected to Mexico revolution.
André Breton wrote: "There is no art more exclusively feminine, in the sense that, in order to be as seductive as possible, it is only too willing to play alternately at being absolutely pure and absolutely pernicious. The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon about a bomb" (Herrera, 1983). Frida Kahlo has the most famous and conspicuous self portraits in the world today. Her paintings were highly controversial and caught the attention of the common people, art lovers and critics from art professionals. However, it was not until the publishing to Hayden Herrera biography Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo in 1983 that drew the eyes of most people to Frida’s art. Frida’s portrait of her own body was the central piece of her art. According to Frida in Mexico out of the 143 completed portraits of Frida, 55 of them were self portraits and the rest were representation of her self identity as a Mexican woman. Most people were captivated by her life stories and how she reflected them in her portraits.
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my reality,” said Frida Kahlo describing her art work (Frida Kahlo n.d.). Kahlo was a Mexican artist from the mid-20th century. She was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico, and the daughter of German and Mexican descendants (Lucie-Smith 1999). During her lifetime Kahlo embarked on many hardships caused by illness, heartache, and love. She became known for her haunting self portraits, radical politics, and that infamous unibrow (Stephen 2008).
Born in 1910, Frida was a woman that was not about preserving young beauty. She loved to acquaint herself with Mexico, where she was born. Being a great painter, she loved to paint pictures of herself. A quote by her is as follows “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best”. In other words, she can paint and feel free, because she knows herself well and can paint the
Her personal project manifested itself in her attire, through her choice of Tehuana costume, pre-Columbian jewellery and traditional hairstyles. Frida Kahlo began using Mexican indigenous dress when she married Diego Rivera. Kahlo’s adoption of native clothing has been frequently connected to her will to please her husband and above all to mask her physical defections . However, we must consider this dress also as a political statement: Kahlo’s sartorial endorsement of post-revolutionary
Usually a storm creeps upon us, hits a luminous climax, and then fades away into nothingness. In The Storm, Kate Chopin develops a parallel between a rainstorm and an emotional storm in a woman’s life. Chopin uses symbolism to depict the feelings of relationships that are as unpredictable as that of a raging storm.
Frida Kahlo and Barbara Kruger’s issues faced throughout their lifetime can be connected to our course. Frida Kahlo’s artwork could be discussed in the Guerrilla Girls book that we have read early in the semester. The Guerrilla Girls portrayed different artists, and their battles faced as women. Frida Kahlo’s art was overshadowed by her artistic husband, Diego Rivera, similarly to many other women artists in the Guerilla Girls. Most women were not credited for their artwork, and were not portrayed in guilds unless they were married or came from a wealthy family. Barbara Kruger’s photography portrayed many feminist prints. Throughout this course, we have discussed the meaning of being a feminist and the issues feminist face
Kate Chopin wrote the short story “The Storm” one of her most bold stories and did not even intention to publish it (Cutter 191). The two main characters in the story are Calixta and Alcee. They both used to be attracted to one another in previous years, but now they are both married to someone else. After Alcee arrives to Calixta’s house looking for shelter they are driven into a passionate moment. In the story “The Storm” the storm has a significant meaning; without it the affair of Calixta and Alcee performed would not have been as powerful as it was between them. “The Storm” has a great deal of symbolism throughout the story: the clouds, the use of color white, the storm relative to the affair, the after effects of the affair, Calixta, Bibi the son, and the husband Bobinot.
In the course of human events, women have been subjected to being seen as far less superior than men. Women through most of history have never been seen as equals to men and seen as pitiful and slave like, but women have tried to change the views of society and become equal. Feminist art was a major contributor in helping women fight these societal views during the feminist movement. Many talented women artist banded together during the 1960-1970s to be able fight the societal view as a woman. Their art was sometimes not accepted by society for exploring subjects that were not accepted for that time. They fought to make their topics they talked about socially accepted. Artists such as Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger, and guerilla girls helped spark and shaped the feminist art movement by
?Any work of art owes its existence to the people and culture from which it has emerged. It has a functional and historical relationship with that culture.? Michael W. Conner, PhD#
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, in the Impressionism exhibit. There are many things going on in this painting that catch the viewer’s eye. The first is the piece’s vibrant colors, light blues and browns, bright greens, and more. The brush strokes that are very visible and can easily be identified as very thick some might even say bold. The furniture, the objects, and the setting are easy to identify and are proportioned to each other. There is so much to see in this piece to attempt to explain in only a few simple sentences.