Frida Kahlo and a Life of Pain Frida Kahlo was a painter who illustrated her feelings. Her paintings are all diverse, but they each allow viewers to have a glimpse into her life. Based on real life events, she painted the biography of her life. Many of Frida's paintings, especially the self-portraits, capture her personal emotions and feelings about an event or crisis in her life: her physical condition, her inability to have children, her philosophy of nature and life and most of all, her turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera. Unfortunately, most of those "life events" were tragic and unpleasant events that brought much pain to her life.
Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887. The second of seven children, O’Keeffe longed to be an artist from an early age. Her parents were successful farmers in the middle western state of Wisconsin. Georgia's mother also had cultural interests. She made sure that Georgia and her sisters studied art, in addition to their usual school subjects.
In this article it talks about her childhood how she was always traveling with her parents and how she received her nickname “Butterfly”, a butterfly landed on her finger while hiking and stayed on her finger for hours. She was also in a car accident where she had to learn how to walk and talk. After her accident she changed her life and became more involved with the environment and climbed up 180 feet up the redwood tree known as “Luna”. She stayed on that tree for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber from cutting it down. This article was useful the information it has is useful to me writing the essay.
Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925, In Savannah, Georgia. She was the only child of Regine Cline and Edwin Francis O’Connor. Both her parents came from Catholic families that had lived in the South for generations. As a child, she was in the local newspapers when a chicken that she owned could walk backwards. She said, “That was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me.
Like Father, Like Daughter A woman victimized by men, raped and humiliated, broken and looked down upon; can she really make a name for herself in the art world in 17th century Italy? The Passion of Artemisia, by Susan Vreeland, is the story of a strong woman who is a victim of men, her society and her circumstances. Instead of allowing her circumstances to disable her and suppress her artistic talent, she uses her experiences and her womanhood to her benefit. However, she discovers that she is quite similar to the one who hurt her the most, her father. Artemisia and her father Orazio, share qualities and experiences that affect not only their relationship to each other, but their relationships with others as well; they pursue their love of painting over their love of people, their pride prevents reconciliation and forgiveness, and they have both experienced great humiliation and loneliness.
Kara walker is an American artist, born 1969 in Stockton, California. She is well known for her work with silhouettes, which addresses America’s race issues. Power, repression, history, race, and sexuality are all themes of her artwork. Since she was three years old, Walker knew she wanted to be an artist like her dad. “One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw.
The arts were embraced, and people like Kahlo and Rivera (her artist husband) were recognized as influencers and surrealists, not merely street folk trying to earn a living. This was a time that Kahlo wanted to be part of. If people did not understand her, she would express herself though her passion: painting. “Painting completed my life.” Frida fell in love with painting after a very eventful tragedy. During the course of traveling on a bus, it collided with a car, thus being impaled by a steal handrail.
During this time, Neel created a series of radical portraits depicting other artists, curators and gallery owners, such as Frank O'Hara, Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson. Despite this, she continued to be influenced by her own political opinions, often including black activists and supporters of the women's movement in her works. Although Neel’s work is not necessarily the most beautiful I have seen. However, this strange quality to her work is an aspect of her style that I found very fascinating, as she painted very honest portraits, without trying to make it look as aesthetically pleasing as possible. Despite working for much of her life without recognition, she persisted at a time that portraits were not in fashion in the art world, showing through her works her interest
Silva Hakopyan RESEARCH PAPER An iconic figure and arguably the most influential female painter of Mexican heritage, Frida Kahlo’s, whose life was completely transformed at a young age. Frida Kahlo’s paintings were based on her own physical and emotional struggles. Her paintings described the pain she had to suffer after the tragic accident which nearly killed her in the year , 1925. As well as the passion and turmoil that characterized her marriage to famed muralist, Diego Rivera. Through her actions and commitment to social movements such as the communist party, she expressed her radical ideals.
Mary Moser’s flower still life, for example, being released into society played a role in the desire to draw and study flowers and plants. The flowers are the main and only focus in her neo-classical style painting. The study of flowers became well known and was something everyone could learn, thus this study often began for many children at an early age. Although the language of flowers for women remained predominantly about the language of expressing different forms of love, the influx of a flowers theme through the art of the study of flower anatomy for flower paintings enhanced the public idea of botany and the scientific naming and classification of plants. This helped to provide