Recreating Frida Kahlo Challenge - April / May 2021
Recreating Frida Kahlo Challenge - April / May 2021
Our next challenge in our group Recreating Masters
Recreating Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) Challenge - April / May 2021 - LINK HERE
Frida Kahlo de Rivera born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (1907 -1954) was a Mexican artist who painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with surrealism and mystic fantasy.
A severe bus accident in 1925 left Kahlo in lifelong pain after an spin injury. The bumper of one of the vehicles punctured his back, causing a pelvic fracture and hemorrhage. Frida spent many months between life and death in the hospital, she had to be operated several times.
Confined to bed for three months following the accident, Kahlo began to paint. She started to consider a career as a medical illustrator, as well, which would combine her interests in science and art. Painting became a way for Kahlo to explore questions of identity and existence.
Frida Kahlo typically uses the visual symbolism of physical pain in a long-standing attempt to better understand emotional suffering. Before Kahlo's efforts, the language of loss, death, and selfhood, had been relatively well investigated by some male artists (including Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, and Edvard Munch), but had not yet been significantly dissected by a woman.
Even as Kahlo was gaining recognition in Mexico, her health was declining rapidly, and an attempted surgery to support her spine failed.
Her paintings from this period include Broken Column (1944), Without Hope (1945), Tree of Hope, Stand Fast (1946), and The Wounded Deer (1946), reflecting her poor physical state.
She died in 1954, however she carried out several works, including the still-life "Viva La Vida"(1954).
The same passions that helped Frida Kahlo become a great artist are reflected in her many love affairs. These took place despite her being married (twice) to fellow artist Diego Rivera. Over the course of her life, multiple famous men and women became her romantic partners.
Kahlo's work as an artist remained relatively unknown until the late 1970s, when his work was rediscovered by art historians and political activists. In the early 1990s, she became not only a recognized figure in art history, but also considered an icon for Chicanos, the feminist movement and the LGBT movement.
So we also propose for this month of April/May to recreate works of this incredible Mexican Painter and /or using portraits and elements from yours or stock images to recreate her creative self portraits !
Recreating Frida Kahlo Challenge - April / May 2021
Recreating Frida Kahlo Challenge - April / May 2021
Our next challenge in our group Recreating Masters
Recreating Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) Challenge - April / May 2021 - LINK HERE
Frida Kahlo de Rivera born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (1907 -1954) was a Mexican artist who painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with surrealism and mystic fantasy.
A severe bus accident in 1925 left Kahlo in lifelong pain after an spin injury. The bumper of one of the vehicles punctured his back, causing a pelvic fracture and hemorrhage. Frida spent many months between life and death in the hospital, she had to be operated several times.
Confined to bed for three months following the accident, Kahlo began to paint. She started to consider a career as a medical illustrator, as well, which would combine her interests in science and art. Painting became a way for Kahlo to explore questions of identity and existence.
Frida Kahlo typically uses the visual symbolism of physical pain in a long-standing attempt to better understand emotional suffering. Before Kahlo's efforts, the language of loss, death, and selfhood, had been relatively well investigated by some male artists (including Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, and Edvard Munch), but had not yet been significantly dissected by a woman.
Even as Kahlo was gaining recognition in Mexico, her health was declining rapidly, and an attempted surgery to support her spine failed.
Her paintings from this period include Broken Column (1944), Without Hope (1945), Tree of Hope, Stand Fast (1946), and The Wounded Deer (1946), reflecting her poor physical state.
She died in 1954, however she carried out several works, including the still-life "Viva La Vida"(1954).
The same passions that helped Frida Kahlo become a great artist are reflected in her many love affairs. These took place despite her being married (twice) to fellow artist Diego Rivera. Over the course of her life, multiple famous men and women became her romantic partners.
Kahlo's work as an artist remained relatively unknown until the late 1970s, when his work was rediscovered by art historians and political activists. In the early 1990s, she became not only a recognized figure in art history, but also considered an icon for Chicanos, the feminist movement and the LGBT movement.
So we also propose for this month of April/May to recreate works of this incredible Mexican Painter and /or using portraits and elements from yours or stock images to recreate her creative self portraits !