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Thursday 15 May 2014

Paintings Of Frida Kahlo And Degas

By Darren Hartley


Frida Kahlo paintings are best remembered for their pain and passion and their intense, vibrant colors. They are celebrated as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition by the Mexicans and for their uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form by feminists.

Categorized as Naive art or folk art, Frida Kahlo paintings feature Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition prominently. They are also described as surrealist. In 1938, Frida was described as being a ribbon around a bomb by a bonafide surrealist artist.

Reflected in her works are the lifelong health problems of Frida. Frida prefers to paint portraits of herself because according to her she is so often alone and if there is one subject she knows best, it is herself. To quote Frida, she was born a bitch as well as a painter. Self portraits constitute half of the Frida Kahlo paintings.

Edgar Degas calls himself as either a realist or independent, despite Degas paintings receiving the label of being impressionistic in style. The fleeting moments in the flow of modern life is what Edgar sought to capture in his work.

Because Edgar had very little energy for painting plein air landscapes, Degas paintings frequently depicted theatre and cafe scenes illuminated in artificial light. In complete adherence to his academic training, Edgar used this light in the clarification of the contours of his figures.

Recognizing the artistic gifts of his son, Edgar's father took him frequently to Paris museums in an effort to encourage his efforts at drawing. Copies of Italian renaissance paintings at the Louvre consisted the early Degas paintings.

Starting in the studio of Louis Lamothe, Edgar was trained in the traditional academic style. This style put emphasis on line and insisted on the crucial importance of draftsmanship. Also strongly influencing Degas paintings were paintings and frescoes seen during long Italian trips in the late 1850s. These paintings and frescoes were recorded in Edgar's personal notebook in the form of sketches and drawings.




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