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=//|| || __Frida Kahlo__//  = ===Frida Kahlo is considered one of the greates masters of art of the 20th century. Frida was born on July 6 of 1907 in the house of her parents Guillermo Kahlo and Matilde Calderón y Gonzalez. She began and ended her life at her parents’ house know as //La Casa Azul//. Throughout her life she experienced different tragic, painful and suffering experiences that provide her creativity in her own paintings. Frida’s work is known because of its creativity, originality, fantastical quality that she used to express her own thoughts and feelings. One of her most recognized a quote is “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality”(Kahlo). She was known for painting her own self portraits that expressed her experiences in love, suffering, deaths, adventures and violence. ===

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 * = [[image:frida_kahlo_the_love_embrace_of_the.jpg width="264" height="383" align="left" caption="El abrazo Amoroso"]] || [[image:fk200708_16.jpg width="217" height="357" align="right" caption="The Broken Column, 1944"]] || [[image:frida_kahlo_tree_of_hope_1946.jpg width="269" height="375"]] ||~  ||

Line is one of the elements more important in 2-D paintings, Kahlo uses the three types of lines, implied, actual, and psychi. The actual line is found on the textures of the dresses of both fridas, the chair, and the line that is dividing the floor and the background (horizon line). The implied line is found on the vein that is connecting one heart from the other. Frida, in my opinion has a great use of negative and positive space, she creates more emphasis on both fridas by adding more values, texture and bright colors and painting the background with only blue hue, combining its tones, shades, and tints. Overall Frida Kahlo created a interesting piece by using the five elements of design in order to create this symbolic and abstract painting. ||
 * Frida had an awful accident when a street car hit the bus where she was riding and drove a handrail into her abdomen and out her vagina, which lead that her pregnancies resulted in miscarriage and abortions. Semi-disable and un constant pain, requires her to have several operations. As a result of an accident, when she was 15 years old, Frida turn her attention from a medical career to painting. Kahlo started painting her personal experience, her work are often yielding her pain and the harsh lives of women. "Fifty five of her 143 painting are self-portraits incorporating a persona symbolism complete with graphic anatomical reference" (Belejack, 1991). She was also influenced by the indigenous Mexican culture that is most likely to be bright colors, with a combination of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of Diego Rivera, a known well Mexican artist that she later married. || [[image:frida-diego.jpg width="378" height="489" align="right" caption="Frida y Diego Rivera, 1931(39.38 x 31 In)"]] ||
 * [[image:frida_kahlo_le_due_frida.jpg width="396" height="400" align="left" caption="The Two Fridas (1939). 67x67in"]] || Frida Kahlo let us with a legacy of art. Using her own unique style of painting, she created not only self portrait but also dramatic moments that represented her life. The Two Fridas painting was made around 1939; it is about 67x67 inches, it is oil on canvas. Its location is on the Museo De Arte Moderno in Mexico City. This is a large self-portrait of Frida painted during the same time she got divorced from Diego Rivera. This piece contains a combination of realism and symbolism. There are two fridas holding hands, with different types of customs. The one on the left is wearing a native Indian custome, and the one on the right has a European long dress. In my opinion both Fridas reflect the two heritage backgrounds. The Frida from the right have a picture of Diego Rivera; and if you look careful to the painting the veins are connected from the picture of Diego conecting the two fridas and at the end theres blood bleeding, it doesn’t have a “happy ending” the vein is been cut by Frida, having a dramatically scene. In my opinion she is trying to express the painful experience that she had when she got divorced. The audience are able to feel the pain by looking at the vein that is been leaking blood to her dress. This painting contains the five elements of design: color, shape, texture, value, and line. Frida Kahlo provides a variety of textures that make the painting become more realistic even though the images provided in this painting are not images that people are exposing to daily bases. The skirts are the shapes that contain a great use of texture. The audience can notice that her legs are open about 45 degrees. The use of this texture with the combination of value makes the painting more plastic as if this painting is a 3-D piece. Color is another element that Frida used through all her paintings. She was known for bright color paintings. In this painting the background was blue, which actually took about one third of her painting. It is said that the color blue represents the distance of a dream, a relationship, or a family. She also used a high contrast between yellow and blue in her custom; the yellow represents madness, fear, and sickness of something; in this case the anger and fear of the lost of someone she loved. The color white, in my opinion, is only to have a better contrast between the white dress and the red blood. In that way she created a focal point on the heart and the blood that is shading from the vein.

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