Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo, whose real name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon was a mexican painter who was born on the 6th of July 1907, Cayocoan, Mexico and died on the 13th of July, 1954. Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists. She began to paint after she got into a tragic bus accident which left her with severe injuries. Later on in her life, she married a communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. Her artwork was mainly displayed in Paris and Mexico before she died in 1958.

"The Little Deer" 1946

Frida Kahlo's artwork "The Little Deer" depicts a deer in the forest with Kahlo's own face used as the deer's. There are also nine arrows sticking out of the deer's back causing it to bleed. Behind the trees of the forest is a bright blue ocean where the painting appears to be set in daytime along with a thunderstorm. The painting seems to be hopeful as the deer leaps and the brightness of the blue ocean, but is then turned around by the arrows in the dear and the thunderstorm.

"The Broken Column" 1944

This artwork of Frida Kahlo's displays the misery that she has experienced throughout her life. She has painted nails pierced into her body, representing the pain she has been through. The column that looks as if it is holding her up and supporting her, has relevance to the horrific accident she was involved in at a young age. The straps around her body could be a metaphor for being trapped or held back.