Art Advisory Benefit from our expert art advisory. Other Artists. Raja A. Kaser A. Ramprakash A. See All Artists. Featured Artist. Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, This painting was a gift to Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian revolutionary leader and also commemorates the brief affair that Frida Kahlo had with him shortly after his arrival in Mexico in Marxism Will Give Health to the III, In this oil painting, we see Kahlo displaying her trust in communism wherein she embraces the utopian conception of political belief that she, and everyone else in the world, can be freed from pain and suffering by the ideas and convictions of Marxism.
Diego and I, Kahlo painted this portrait of her with her husband Diego Rivera on their 15th wedding anniversary. La Columna Rota The Broken Column , Kahlo painted this work shortly after her spinal column surgery, which left her bedridden and enclosed in a metallic corset to alleviate her constant pain. Retrato de Miguel N. Lira, This is a portrait of the Mexican poet and a close friend of hers, Miguel N. The Bus, This vividly coloured painting has two distinct themes captured within it.
Wrap Up Kahlo's magnificent artworks placed Mexican art on the international stage. Write for us. Get the latest blog in your Inbox! Sign up for exclusive email offers from Indianartideas. Indian Art Ideas is a leading online art gallery based in India, conceptualized for buying affordable paintings by Indian artists as well as international artists online.
From us, art patrons buy paintings online in India as well as worldwide. With over 10, paintings to shop online, Indian Art Ideas offers you a wide variety of artworks to choose from. Indian Art Ideas caters to every art admirer: we sell paintings online with utmost trust and the highest assurance of quality. Emre Kagitci 4 March min Read. Frida Kahlo, who lived during the first half of the 20 th century changed art history. She put her own dreams into her work. She had many ups and downs in her life as she had a bus accident and also many love affairs that she expressed in an open manner.
She used Christian symbolism merging with her own dreams that she described as her reality. After periods of depression and miscarriages in her life she gave herself to pets around her. She liked to use animals as models in her artworks. Her paintings are domesticated by monkeys, hummingbirds, dogs, and cats.
One of her self-portraits depicts her with three spider monkeys. The animals became protective and tender symbols to Kahlo. On the contrary, Mexican mythology suggests monkeys are symbols of lust.
According to some art historians, Kahlo wanted to show that she had been resurrected and had started a new life with this painting.
As a symbol of this idea, the hummingbird was placed in her necklace. The hummingbird symbolizes hope and good luck in Mexican culture. However, the audience may notice the black cat — known as a symbol of bad luck — taking its place behind the right shoulder of Kahlo. Different interpretations say that the hummingbird pendant refers to Huitzilopochtli. It is the Aztec god of war and may refer to the pain Kahlo suffered all her life internally.
Other important symbols of the painting were butterflies and the thorn necklace. Butterflies symbolize resurrection and it may refer to her rebirth in life after the accident.
In addition to these symbols, Kahlo created a painting that both uses Christianity and animal symbolism in one subject matter. The artist portrayed herself in this painting. It may also be a reference to crucifixion and resurrection.
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Thank you for your help! With techniques learned from both her husband and her father, a professional architectural photographer, she created haunting, sensual and stunningly original paintings that fused elements of surrealism, fantasy and folklore into powerful narratives. In contrast to the 20th-century trend toward abstract art, her work was uncompromisingly figurative. Although she received occasional commissions for portraits, she sold relatively few paintings during her lifetime.
Today her works fetch astronomical prices at auction. She was a dutiful child but had a fiery temperament. A German Jew with deep-set eyes and a bushy mustache, Guillermo Kahlo had immigrated to Mexico in at the age of Frida portrayed her hybrid ethnicity in a painting, My Grandparents, My Parents, and I opposite. Kahlo adored her father. A chubby child with a winning smile and sparkling eyes, Kahlo was stricken with polio at the age of 6.
After her recovery, her right leg remained thinner than her left and her right foot was stunted. Despite her disabilities or, perhaps, to compensate for them, Kahlo became a tomboy.
She played soccer, boxed, wrestled and swam competitively. As an adult, she collected dolls. Her father taught her photography, including how to retouch and color prints, and one of his friends gave her drawing lessons. In , the year-old Kahlo entered the elite, predominantly male NationalPreparatory School, which was located near the Cathedral in the heart of Mexico City.
She stole his lunch and soaped the steps by the stage where he was working. Kahlo planned to become a doctor and took courses in biology, zoology and anatomy. Her knowledge of these disciplines would later add realistic touches to her portraits. She also had a passion for philosophy, which she liked to flaunt. Then, on September 17, , the bus on which she and her boyfriend were riding home from school was rammed by a trolley car. A metal handrail broke off and pierced her pelvis.
Several people died at the site, and doctors at the hospital where the year-old Kahlo was taken did not think she would survive. Her spine was fractured in three places, her pelvis was crushed and her right leg and foot were severely broken.
The first of many operations she would endure over the years brought only temporary relief from pain. Confined to bed for three months, she was unable to return to school. Though she knew the works of the old masters only from reproductions, Kahlo had an uncanny ability to incorporate elements of their styles in her work. During her months in bed, she pondered her changed circumstances.
I already know it all. I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions became women slowly, I became old in instants. As she grew stronger, Kahlo began to participate in the politics of the day, which focused on achieving autonomy for the government-run university and a more democratic national government.
She joined the Communist party in part because of her friendship with the young Italian photographer Tina Modotti, who had come to Mexico in with her then companion, photographer Edward Weston. It was most likely at a soiree given by Modotti in late that Kahlo re-met Rivera. They were an unlikely pair. The most celebrated artist in Mexico and a dedicated Communist, the charismatic Rivera was more than six feet tall and tipped the scales at pounds.
Kahlo, 21 years his junior, weighed 98 pounds and was 5 feet 3 inches tall. He was ungainly and a bit misshapen; she was heart-stoppingly alluring. Rivera courted Kahlo under the watchful eyes of her parents. Sundays he visited the Casa Azul, ostensibly to critique her paintings. The couple married on August 21, The newlyweds spent almost a year in Cuernavaca while Rivera executed murals commissioned by the American ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Morrow.
Kahlo was a devoted wife, bringing Rivera lunch every day, bathing him, cooking for him. Years later Kahlo would paint a naked Rivera resting on her lap as if he were a baby. With the help of Albert Bender, an American art collector, Rivera obtained a visa to the United States, which previously had been denied him.
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