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Frida Kahlo paintings had an excellent grouping of pragmatism, representation and out of the ordinary themes.
Frida Kahlo paintings somewhat represented reality that a common people have to face in their lives.
Frida Kahlo was a native of Mexico, who took immense pride in painting her Mexican culture. Frida Kahlo paintings were greatly influenced by fellow Mexican painter; Diego Rivera, who was her husband.
Incidentally, Frida Kahlo suffered from a perilous bus mishap that left undiluted impressions on her life as a painter.
All that Frida experienced, during or after the mishap was taken as a theme in her paintings. When Frida Kahlo focused her attention on her painting profession, she always depicted all hardships she faced in her life.
Sometimes, Frida Kahlo paintings were often marked by intense depression and pain. Frida Kahlo paintings are total 143 in number (which can identified in their original form) and out of which 55 paintings can be classified into the category of self-portrait (depiction of the painter itself).
In some of her self-portraits, she is seen with her pets.
But, in her entire career as a painter she made 200 paintings and sketches that illustrated her troubled life.
Apart from that, Frida Kahlo paintings were totally prejudiced towards the culture of Mexico.
Her inclination towards her native culture is all reflected in terms of choice of colors which were bright in nature, theatrical representation and impenitently unsympathetic and brutal stuff was there in her paintings.
The last phase of the 20th Century saw, Frida Kahlo being emerged as a feminist cult personality because of her obsession with womanly subject matter and metaphorical bluntness with which she articulated all those feminist themes in her paintings. Frida Kahlo paintings were consciously adolescent in look crammed with colors and variety of her indigenous folk painting. |
