Frida Kahlo 1907-1954
Frida Kahlo painted herself and the world the way she saw it. Many of her famous works were self potraits in which she did not attempt to beautify herself at all. In many of her portraits she sports a unibrow, physical injuries, and is clearly in pain. At a time when it wasn't popular, she gave the world an uncomprimising view of feminism and activism. There is a book of Kahlo's works that sit on my family's coffee table at home. When I was younger, the potraits scared and repulsed me. (Ok, they still scare me. Now it's in a more creeped out in awe way.) Several years older, I respect Ms. Kahlo for her abilitity to paint the world in vibrate colors but, still express the problems and pain she saw in it. I think that's what most artists strive to do, and it's what I hope to be able to do in the future as an artist. I will leave you with the inspiring images and words of Ms. Kahlo, because anything I say just pales in comparison to the vibrance of her art work. (Also, I'm clearly not as cool or brilliant as Frida Kahlo)
The Two Fridas (A Self Potrait)
SandÃas con leyenda: Viva la vida”(Watermelons with legend: The life lives) was painted several days before her death
Probably Kahlo's most famous self-potrait
"I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."- Frida Kahlo
***Footnote*** Frida Kahlo died in 1954. I guess that means it's technically not her birthday, but the anniversary of her birthday? Is that how that works? Could you let me know, because now I've completely confused myself. Enough of that, point is she is most unfortunately dead.
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