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Biography Significant Works Key Vocabulary Frida Kahlo Mexico Significant Works Biography Key -The Two Fridas is an oil-on-canvas painting. It -Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. was the first large-scale work she completed, and Vocabulary The Two it is one of her most famous pieces. -It is thought to show Fridas two personalities. On -She is well known for her portraits, self-portraits Fridas the left, she is in traditional Tehuana costume and Frida Kahlo and works inspired by Mexico. (1939) has a broken heart. The right shows her in modern -She is most famous for paintings such as The Two dress. She said that it expressed her loneliness during her separation from husband Diego. Mexico Fridas, Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and -In this oil-on-canvas self-portrait, Kahlo is directly Hummingbird and The Wounded Deer. Self- confronting the viewer’s gaze, with her bold eyebrows immediately noticeable. The thorn Portrait Tehuana -Kahlo had polio at age 6, which left her disabled. necklace appears to represent her pain after her with Thorn failed romantic relationships – she painted this She also suffered a terrible accident aged 18, Necklace… causing her severe pain for the rest of her life. after her divorce from Diego. The hummingbird is (1940) considered a good luck charm for love in her Indigenous culture, yet this hangs dead from her neck. -Kahlo’s paintings often had strong -In this oil-on-Masonite painting, Kahlo depicts a autobiographical elements – mixing realism and -Frida Kahlo lived between 1907 and 1954. She The young deer with her head. The dead trees and Culture broken branches around her show fear and fantasy. She used a naïve folk art style to explore was born and she died in the Coyoacan district Wounded ideas such as gender, class and race. of Mexico City, the capital city of Mexico. desperation. The young deer is pierced by arrows Deer and is bleeding, and will likely die. She painted (1946) this after years of physical and mental torment at Self-Portrait being injured and bedridden. Styles and Techniques Surrealism -Folk art is all types of visual art that expresses the styles How do I create art like Kahlo? and views of a particular people. In Kahlo’s case, her work presents ideas consistent with her Mexican heritage. Symbolism Step 3: Use your oil pastels to Step 4: Use your Naïve Naïve art is art created by a person who does not have the Step 2: Still using complete the background, pencil to outline your Folk Art formal education and training that most artists undergo. your pencil, draw the exploring patterns & shapes that facial features and Their work may appear more childlike/simple, but often outline of any Symbolic are symbolic to you/your culture. any other finer this helps it to appear more raw and expressive. Kahlo’s symbolic animals/ features (e.g. work regularly fits this category. plants that you wish remember the big Realism -Symbolism is the name given to an artistic movement to add. which started in the late 19th Century. Symbolism is evident eyebrows!) Then, go when artists express ideas through symbols, rather than over all outlines Step 1: Use your Naïve Folk Art giving a realistic view of the natural world. using your black pencil to draw the Symbolism - Kahlo’s paintings use rich symbolism - a number of pastille. images, lines, colours and textures are used to present outline of your The Two Fridas ideas. These ideas are often strong symbols in Mexican image, as you see in Step 5: Add colour culture. For example, she uses animals & plants to suggest the mirror photo. to your portrait. Oil-on-canvas behaviours or superstitions and weather to portray mood. Kahlo uses lots of -Surrealism is an art movement that grew from around Q bold, bright colours Things you’ll need: Oil Polio 1920. It used strange, chaotic figures and shapes to show in her self-portraits, dreams and unconscious thoughts. pastels, mirror or photo, Surrealism adding to the naïve -Many of Kahlo’s paintings contained suprising, dream-like pastel paper/ sketch A child’s Kahlo- inspired self- folk art style. The Wounded imagery and deep symbolism, meaning that she has often book, pencil. Deer been labelled a surrealist painter. portrait. Frida Kahlo Timeline 6th July 1907 1913 1914 1922 1925 1 92 6 19 29 1937 1944 July 13th 1954 2001 She is born as She is She overcomes polio, but has a She begins attending She is involved in a bus accident in Kahlo turns seriously She marries the Frida Kahlo’s work is Frida Kahlo begins After a long She is Magdalena Carmen diagnosed withered right leg. Her father buys the National Prep which she suffers multiple injuries. to art to aid her painter Diego exhibited in Mexico for keeping a diary. illness, Frida commemorated on a Frieda Kahlo y Calderón. with polio. her paints whilst she recuperates. School She suffers for the rest of her life. recovery. Rivera. the first time. Kahlo dies. US postage stamp. .
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