Some write their experiences and feelings, and this becomes a novel. Some compose, and this emerges as a piece of music! She unburdened herself with her colors and brushes, and it became an art! Today, we will examine Frida Kahlo’s one of the most striking, A Few Small Nips (Unos Cuantos Piquetitos), hanging in Museo Dolores Olmedo to reveal her great pain within this work…
Today, I will tell you about a work of Salvador Dali (or Salvador Dalí) called The Elephants made in 1948. The mysterious, bizarre work is straight of out Dali’s subconscious. This artwork, which includes elephants painted in a surrealistic style in a desert landscape, is in a private collection today. The painting is also known as “Los Elefantes” in Spanish…
Frida Kahlo is best known for her series of self-portraits, which often depict the artist in pain or vulnerability. The Wounded Deer (It is also known as The Little Deer) of Frida Kahlo is one such painting. In this work, Frida portrays herself as a deer that has been shot with multiple arrows…
Today, we will examine Frida Kahlo’s straightforward works, Me and My Parrots (Original title in Spanish: Yo y Mis Pericos), a self-portrait depicting Frida Kahlo with her calmer appearance surrounding her beloved pet parrots. In Me and My Parrots, self-portrait, she was right to be looking nerve-wracking, considering her grief at the loss of her father and her continually lasting pain but instead, she was able to find a place of peace, and I believe it’s pretty admirable…
Mexican serial self-portraitist Frida Kahlo chose to paint herself, her best-known subject since she was alone more often than not. A few self-portraits are fairly straightforward renderings of her striking appearance. Still, many of them are entirely different in approach, profoundly personal, and particular commentaries on her life. But sometimes, even relatively straightforward works of hers, such as Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird or Me and My Parrot, carry multiple layers of allegories of her life…
Figure in the Moonlight is one of the paintings done by the self-taught Victorian-era artist John Atkinson Grimshaw. Let’s take a closer look at this undated yet beautiful nocturne artwork by Grimshaw.
