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. A metal rod had made a very deep wound in her abdominal, and her third and fourth lumbar vertebrae were fractured. Frida had received many more wounds, and she ended up trapped in a body cast for months. While Frida was confined to her bed, her mother brought her a small lap easel, and Frida started to paint. She had studied art before, at the National Preparatory School, where she had met Diego Rivera when he was painting the Creation mural, but Frida had never worked on paintings before.
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.
“Karsh would set up one or two lamps behind the subject to build up rim lighting, though in his case he brought the lamps further round to the sides than most people did”, (said by a history photo observer; Yousuf Karsh, Photo.net). He fell in love with the use of artificial light. One of his favorite techniques was to light the subject’s hands separately, he felt this gave a more compelling look to the portrait and it did. The light doesn’t just drift away, every detail is there. The subjects look as if they were sculpted.
Only my dress hangs there, because my life is in Mexico. Mexico’s greatest and most shocking painter became an international icon after her death in 1954. One of history’s grand divas was a tequila-slamming, dirty-telling smoker, bi-sexual that hobbled about her bohemian barrio in lavish indigenous dress and threw festive dinner parties for the communist elite. Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacan, Mexico July 6th, 1907. She was seriously injured in a bus accident, at the age of 18, and spent over a year in bed recovering from fractures to her spine, collarbone and ribs, a severed pelvis, shoulder, and foot injuries.
The neglect from her brother and low self-esteem led to Horney’s depression which would affect her for the rest of her life. In 1904 Horney’s stepmother divorced her father and left him to raise Horney and Brendlt by himself. “In 1906, Horney entered medical school against her parent's wishes. At medical school, she met Oscar Horney and married him in 1909. In 1910, she gave birth to Brigitte, the first of three daughters.
As Harriet and Sarah Tilt, Harriet’s friend and famous art critic, look through an exhibition at the Cumberland and Maitland Art Gallery, they come across a painting by Fritz Dangerfield’s who, in his career, painted the same painting over and over again. Sarah considers him a “mad artist” (115) “He painted the same picture over and over again but he would not be parted from the canvases, which he kept in his bedroom until his death.” (116) This painting was his only source of influence, was the only ‘word’ in his verbal universe, so it was the only idea he could recycle and reuse in a new context. One interaction Harriet and Sarah make, after Sarah explains this painting to Harriet explains
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.
Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a child, Warhol liked to draw and was encouraged by his mother, who was also artistic. Unfortunately at a young age he was diagnosed with chorea, a disease that attacks the nervous system and makes someone shake uncontrollably. With much struggle he overcame this and he graduated from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh in 1945. He enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology and graduated in June 1949.
René Magritte started his life with art as a young child and at the age of 11 he went to a drawing school to develop his skills more. His earliest paintings which are dated to about 1915 were based on an Impressionistic style. When René was 13 his mother committed suicide by successfully drowning herself. When the body of René’s mother was found, her face was covered up with her dress; this image is supposedly the source of inspiration behind the covered faces that he paints, as in Les Amants. Between the years of 1918 and 1924, most of Magritte’s paintings were influenced by Cubism and Futurism.
This event pulled her deeper into depression and it was very evident in her writing and in everything… In 1960, Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems, The Colossus was published. Shortly thereafter, she and Ted Hughes moved "to an English country village in Devon" ("Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)"). In 1960, their first child, a daughter named Frieda, named after Sylvia's beloved paternal aunt, was born, and in 1962, their son Nicholas was born. Sylvia also suffered several miscarriages before and between the births of her children (Neurotic Poets 5-6), and "less than two years after the birth of their first child their marriage broke apart ("Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963" 1) One can only speculate about the volume and the quality of future work that Sylvia Plath, already a seasoned and much