{"id":3006,"date":"2022-03-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artnsketch.com\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2022-05-14T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T22:43:06","slug":"a-few-small-nips-passionately-in-love-a-detailed-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artnsketch.com\/a-few-small-nips-passionately-in-love-a-detailed-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Small Nips (Passionately in Love) – A Detailed Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Title:<\/strong>\u00a0A Few Small Nips (Unos Cuantos Piquetitos<\/em> in Spanish, also known as Passionately in Love<\/em>)

Author:\u00a0<\/strong>Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calder\u00f3n\u00a0(Born, Mexico, July 13, 1907 \u2013 Died, Mexico, July 2, 1954)

Date:\u00a0<\/strong>1935

Genre:\u00a0<\/strong>Portrait

Movement:<\/strong>\u00a0Na\u00efve art

Technique:\u00a0<\/strong>Oil painting

Support:<\/strong>\u00a0Metal

Dimension:<\/strong>\u00a019.09 \u00d7 14.96 in. (48,5 x 38 cm)

Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we will examine Frida Kahlo\u2019s one of the most striking, A Few Small Nips (Passionately in Love<\/em>)<\/strong>, hanging in Museo Dolores Olmedo<\/a><\/strong> to reveal her great pain within this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frida Kahlo, A Few Small Nips (Passionately in Love<\/em>), 1935, Oil on canvas.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mexican serial self-portraitist Frida Kahlo took her inspiration from not only her life but also Surrealism, ancient Aztec culture, popular Mexican folklore, eastern philosophy, and here her influence token from a piece of heartbroken news.

A man murdered his wife in a drunken rage, stabbing her several times as a result of discovering her to be unfaithful. The man professed he only gave her “a few small nips<\/strong>” in court.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gruesome <\/em>painting, A Few Small Nips (Passionately in Love<\/em><\/em>) shows the naked woman on a bed bleeding from numerous stab wounds while the killer stands over her. Some thought Kahlo saw herself in the brutalized woman. She, too, was suffering from the \u201clittle nips<\/strong>\u201d that Rivera had been delivering for years by his bad behavior. Rivera freely admitted that he treated women horribly. In his autobiography, he wrote: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>Diego Rivera<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

THE STORY BEHIND FRIDA KAHLO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before diving into all the technical details, I would like to provide fresh insight into Frida\u2019s life to understand the painting adequately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frida developed poliomyelitis<\/strong><\/a> at six, which caused her right leg to be thinner than her left leg. Later in her life, a horrific trolley accident cut short Frida\u2019s plans on September 27, 1925. It was one of those flukes of fate that changed a life forever. An out-of-control trolley hit the bus she was riding. She nearly died that day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frida Kahlo<\/em>, Ex voto, 1943, Oil on metal.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The scene of the accident was horrifying. The iron rod stabbed through her hip and emerged through her vagina, damaging her uterus and causing her incapable of bearing children. <\/strong>(Later, Frida Kahlo told the doctor the handrail had taken her virginity).<\/em> Her wounds included a broken spine, collarbone, two broken ribs, and a shattered pelvis; her right leg had eleven fractures, and her right foot was dislocated and crushed. Which basically means a lifetime of suffering and pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeting Her Great Pain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Every artist needs approval, so she decided to ask the one artist she knew, a well-known muralist<\/em> Diego Rivera<\/strong><\/a>. She said to him;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLook, I didn\u2019t come to flirt with you or anything; even though you are a womanizer, I came to show you my painting. If it interests you, tell me so; if it doesn\u2019t interest you, tell me that too, so I can get to work on something else to help my parents.\u201d<\/em><\/p>Frida Kahlo<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Rivera said he liked her work, especially the self-portrait<\/strong><\/a> Frida showed him. The other three, he told her, were too much influenced by other artists. Therefore, Diego asked her to paint another picture, and he would come to her visit. So Diego did, and he told Frida she was talented. The rest was inevitable. Soon the two started to see each other passionately. Then, Diego proposed marriage, and Kahlo accepted. And on August 21, 1929, Frida Kahlo, age 22, married Diego Rivera, 42. The next few years were happy, though. Their relationship contained passion, devotion, jealousy, anger, and betrayal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frida Kahlo<\/em>, Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931, Oil on canvas.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The other pain in her life, Diego Rivera\u2019s constant infidelities, tormented Kahlo. Even though Rivera said; \u201cFrida became the most important thing in my life.\u201d he did not always show his love by his behavior, unfortunately. It was terrible enough Rivera\u2019s messy relationships with strangers, but\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Diego lost American mural commissions, he returned to his murals at the National Palace in Mexico City. At the same time, he began making sketches of Frida\u2019s younger sister, Christina. One thing led to another, and then he had an affair with Frida\u2019s own younger sister. Frida was at first crushed and then enraged. The two people closest to Frida betrayed her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.\u201d<\/em><\/p>Frida Kahlo<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

THE STORY BEHIND A FEW SMALL NIPS (PASSIONATELY IN LOVE)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Frida Kahlo didn’t much work in 1934, she was at dry period. Later, Kahlo was devastated to learn that Rivera was having an affair with her younger sister, Cristina. Rivera had used Cristina as a model for nudes in some of his murals and the relationship apparently developed from there. A Few Small Nips was Kahlo\u2019s first painting after that dry period and it was possible to the reaction of that affair. Frida represents her sorrow and bitterness in this painting. However, her pain was far more significant to depict; as a result of this, she launched it by showing the other woman’s misfortune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In A Few Small Nips (Passionately in Love<\/em><\/em>), Kahlo’s subject matter comes from one newspaper. The news was about one woman who had been stabbed to death by her boyfriend after learning her to be unfaithful. It was entitled A Few Little Nips<\/em> because when the murderer defended his actions before the judge he said, \u201cBut all I did was give her a few small nips!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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