Education in Arts - H / Spring 2023

  1    Autoretrato con chango y loro, 1942     Au toretrato con traje de terciopelo, 1926 Kahlo's  Physical and Emotion Pain Evie Strauss   Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist, has painted over fifty self-portraits that feature unique characteristics of her identity. Through these portraits, Kahlo exposes physical and emotion pain, as well as strong feelings of loneliness, love, loss, and passion. She uses her artwork to communicate lifelong suffering and chronic pain through personal tragedies of her own like being a victim of a bus accident as a teenager and challenges bearing children later in life. However, she also depicts herself as a bold artist who is proud of her indigenous heritage. I chose two of her self-portraits:  Autoretrato con chango y loro, 1942. and Autoretrato con traje de terciopelo, 1926, (pictured above) to demonstrate the intersections of art and identity.  These portraits greatly contrast with one another to showc...