ishajoyart
"Self Portrait 2
This painting is inspired by Frida Kahlo’s ‘The Broken Column 1944.’ It depicts anxiety and uses tree imagery to symbolise how anxiety can make you feel mentally and sometimes physically immobile and how your fears and misgivings can grow into a tangled mass of overthinking. Where Kahlo uses the broken column, I have used a tree trunk that grows through the body and branches out of the head. The hollow of the tree and the barren landscape symbolise the feelings of emptiness and isolation, the naked body those of exposure and vulnerability. The way Kahlo showed her physical pain in the form of the broken body, I have tried to show mental trauma.
Title: "Self Portrait 2 "
Materials: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 18x24
Date: 2019
"Self Portrait 2
This painting is inspired by Frida Kahlo’s ‘The Broken Column 1944.’ It depicts anxiety and uses tree imagery to symbolise how anxiety can make you feel mentally and sometimes physically immobile and how your fears and misgivings can grow into a tangled mass of overthinking. Where Kahlo uses the broken column, I have used a tree trunk that grows through the body and branches out of the head. The hollow of the tree and the barren landscape symbolise the feelings of emptiness and isolation, the naked body those of exposure and vulnerability. The way Kahlo showed her physical pain in the form of the broken body, I have tried to show mental trauma.
Title: "Self Portrait 2 "
Materials: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 18x24
Date: 2019