As she lay in bed, alone, her only escape, or way to express herself was through her art. Kahlo used her own experiences as her inspiration. Many of her works show the pain and sexuality, or bisexuality, of her life. If you where to look at the family photograph that her father took, you can clearly see that she is dressed as a man. The bisexual relationships would come in to play during and following her husband’s, Diego Rivera, affairs with various female artists, models, and finally, Kahlo’s sister, Christina.
Although she did not major in illustration or some type or art, Morales’s illustrations in picture books have been highly recognized. As a child, Yuyi enjoyed the art of drawing. She would spend time recreating family portraits, images from paperback graphic novels, and drawings of herself. She learned how to draw at different levels beginning with the drawings she did of herself. Paying close attention to the lines, shadows, and many different aspects of art is how she learned to make good quality illustrations in her future books and those of others.
Biography: Frida Khalo Frida Kahlo has once said, “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” As her main inspiration, Frida has produced over seventy self-portraits that reflect her most dramatic works that not only followed her face and feelings but also the events in her life. Her work was a rare blend of love, loss, pain, surgery and most often her un-denying passion for her husband, the equally great Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera. What passed through Frida’s mind were some of the most originals and dramatic images of our century which she fittingly combined with her strong Mexican roots that stimulated the incentive to speak to her people. One of the most influential events in Frida's life was one of the most tragic as well, at the age of fifteen; Frida partook in a disastrous bus collision that left her almost destroyed. The accident was traumatizing and took a life-long battle to fully understand for the event made it impossible for Frida to bare children.
In the art world people compare the works of art by comparing the style, subject matter, shape, space, color schemes, movement and even the balance. The most important part to them however is what message the work of art portrays. In Mary Cassatt’s piece, “Maternal Caress”, the style of the piece is realism. She shows a mother caressing a child. This style is partially easy to point out because of the humans structured in the piece.
Falk attended a teacher’s college where she studied both painting and drawing at UBC. Not only was Gracie Falk a painter, but she later became a sculptor, installation and performance artist as well. She was inspired by the elements of everyday life such as fruit, shoes, women’s clothing, reading a book, eggs, and many other things (“Underrated Canadian artist: Gathie Falk”). She found the simplicity of life beautiful, and that it should be magnified and not taken for granted. Many of her works tend to hold feminine and masculine elements in a unique, serious, and charming way.
Marisol first studied art in evening drawing classes at the Jepson School in Los Angeles when she was sixteen. By this time, she was already proficient in representational drawing. Catholicism infused Marisol with beliefs in mystery, miracles, intercession and awareness of a spiritual/supernatural aspect of life that dominated both her character and work as an artist. She was encouraged by her father to pursue her interest in art, so Marisol moved to Paris to study for a year in 1949, at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts, she was instructed to mimic the painting style of Pierre Bonnard. Marisol moved to New York City in 1950, looking for more abstract approaches.
Edouard Vuillard’s painting titled The Dressmakers Under the Lamp was executed between 1891 and 1892. He used oil on cardboard for the small finished piece sized approximately 9 x 10 inches. Vuillard was known for painting subjects in intimate settings therefore earning the style title of “intimist”. The scene depicted in this painting was of Madame Vuillard and Edouard’s sister doing their jobs as seamstresses under the glowing light in the Vuillard’s tiny apartment that doubled as a dressmaker’s salon. The dark brown and blackened background is subordinated by the warm golden glow of the kerosene lamp that is shared by the two weary women.
Her artwork is about her life and the experiences and obstacles she went through due to her accident, culture, fantasies and bisexuality. She painted herself with no emotion on her face because she painted the way she used to see herself on a mirror, but she always painted herself wearing Mexican clothing, colorful hair ornaments and leaves representing life. On almost all of her paints she had plants which represent life, animals as cats or monkeys which represent promiscuity and in her case, her desire to become a mother. She had an obsession with fertility and babies. So she painted herself image when she had one of their miscarriages.
In the book, Girl with a Pearl Earring written by Tracy Chevalier, art plays a big role, because throughout the book both of the main characters help each other through their artistic abilities. Throughout the book, Griet’s master, Johannes Vermeer, learns a lot of new information from his maid, which helps him improve his paintings for the better. One day, Johannes Vermeer was painting a picture of his patron’s wife, and as Griet was doing her duties in the studio, she found one change that she would like to do in the painting. She waited for her master, to make the change in the picture, but he didn’t, so Griet “decided she would have to make change herself” (Chevalier 133). Griet thought that if she made the change it would make the picture more interesting and better.
“The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you. But 3. Bette Midler has always transformed herself to keep up with changing time and growing and learning how to design art and positive manners. Conclusion: Yes, Bette Midler has come a long way over the many years she has reinvented itself.