Some people call her a surrealist although, she says that what she paints is her own reality. At a young age, she married the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The turbulent, passionate relationship survived infidelities, the pressures of careers, divorce, remarriage, Frida’s lesbian affairs, her poor health and her sterility. Frida once said, “I suffered two grave accidents in my life…One in a bus and the other was Diego” (Kahlo 30). When Diego started to work on a mural, in the Rockefeller Center in New York, Frida came along with him, and after more than three years in America Frida wanted desperately to return to her native Mexico.
Visual Culture Research Paper Art Appreciation 160 Frida Kahlo: The Symbolism in her Art Kahlo was a Mexican artist from the mid-20th century. During her life Kahlo went through many hardships caused by illness, heartache, and love. She became known for her haunting self -portraits, radical politics, and that infamous uni-brow [1]. The turmoil began early for this young woman at age six; she was stricken with polio. The life changing accident occurred on September 17th 1925, Frida and her friend Alex was involved in a severe bus crash, and Frida was damaged very severely.
Frida Kahlo was born in 1907. Kahlo is a Mexican painter , famous and popular internationally for her outstanding artwork. Kahlo experienced a tragic accident in 1925 in which she suffered serious injuries that left her in hospital or bedridden for months at a time. This led her to turn herself away from medicine studies. Bored with nothing to do Kahlo taught herself to paint and it occupied her whist she was bedridden after the accident.
The Tate exhibition became the second most popular in the gallery's history, with 420,000 visitors in the three months it was open. In 2007, an exhibition focused on the period of Hopper’s greatest achievements—from about 1925 to mid-century—and was presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibit comprised fifty oil paintings, thirty watercolors, and twelve prints, including the favorites Nighthawks, Chop Suey, and Lighthouse and Buildings. The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Art Institute of Chicago and sponsored by the global management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. In 2010, the Fondation de l’Hermitage museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, held an exhibition that covered Hopper’s entire career, with works drawn largely from the Whitney Museum in New York City.
In Maya Angelou’s life she has defied incredible odds. Her perseverance through tough times seeps through in all of her poetry. Maya was raped when she was 8, similarly to the book Speak we read sophomore year the tragedy makes her totally withdraw from society. Finally one of her grade school teachers encouraged Maya to come out of her shell. In her young adult years she moved to San Francisco and had a variety of jobs, many of which broke the color barrier.
Within two years, Leibovitz was promoted to chief photographer at the age of 23 - a title she held for the next 10 years. Her position with the magazine gave her the chance to accompany the Rolling Stones band on their 1975 international tour. While with Rolling Stone, Leibovitz developed her trademark technique - the use of bold primary colours and surprising poses. Wenner has credited her with making many Rolling Stone covers collector's items, most notably a cover that featured John Lennon nude and curled around his fully clothed wife, Yoko Ono. Taken on December 8, 1980, Leibovitz’s photo was shot just hours before his death.
Marilyn believed that Bobby would leave his wife for her, and when she found out it was a lie, she became extremely depressed. Marilyn threatened to tell the world about her affairs and it is said that the Kennedys paid her more than one million dollars to keep her quiet (Hosenball) (FBI). Marilyn was extremely depressed and was regularly seeing a psychiatrist. On her last visit to Dr. Greenson, her psychiatrist, she was prescribed sixty seconal tablets (FBI). Seconal is a barbiturate to help relieve anxiety and treat insomnia and the large prescription was unusual because she saw Greenson
Frida had three sisters Matilde, Adriana and Christina. When she was six years old, she developed polio. This illness caused her right leg to appear much sinner than the other. Polio caused her to be bedridden for nine months. When she recovered from the illness she limped when she walked because the infection had damaged her right leg and foot.
Often dealing with difficult times Horney turned to Freudian analysis to help her resolve some of her issues. In 1915 she followed Freudian analysis with Karl Abraham who was a student as well as college of Freud and then stated taking on patients of her own. Horney began working with the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Berlin in 1920. She lectured regularly while there and within a few years, she entered into another depression after the decline of her husband’s health and the death of her mother and then only brother. After suffering through a prolonged depressive and suicidal state, Horney left her abusive husband in 1926 and eventually moved to the United States with her children in 1930.
In 1890 she published her first novel: At Fault. Her early work was influenced by her favorite writers: Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, and Molière. She wrote several more novels and short stories, with her most famous (and also most controversial) being: The Awakening. After publishing The Awakening “Chopin’s career was ruined by the critical and public reaction, she had difficulties finding publishers for later works and was ousted from local library groups.”i (Poupard, 1985) On August 20th 1904 Kate Chopin suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while she was at a fair. On August 21st she went unconscious and died the next day.