Friday, May 16, 2014

Frida Kahlo Paintings And Degas Paintings

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.

Prominently featuring Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition, intense Frida Kahlo paintings are categorized as Naive art or folk art as well as products of the surrealist movement. In 1938, a bonafide surrealist artist pictured Frida as being a ribbon around a bomb.

The lifelong health problems of Frida are reflected in her works. Half of the Frida Kahlo paintings are self portraits of one sort or another. Because she is often alone and because she is one subject she knows best, Frida prefers to feature herself in her paintings. According to Frida, she was born a bitch and a painter.

Although Degas paintings have been labelled as impressionistic in style, Edgar Degas prefers to call himself as either a realist or independent. Edgar sought to capture the fleeting moments in the flow of modern life.

However, he showed little interest in painting plein air landscapes. Degas paintings favoured theatre and cafe scenes illuminated by artificial light, clarifying the contours of figures, in total adherence to an academic training.

In recognition oh his son's artistic gifts, Edgar's father took him frequently to Paris museums as a way of encouraging his efforts at drawing. This resulted to early Degas paintings being copies of Italian renaissance paintings at the Louvre.

Edgar's training in the traditional academic style started in the studio of Louis Lamothe, with emphasis on line and insistence on the crucial importance of draftsmanship. Degas paintings were also strongly influenced by paintings and frescoes seen during long Italian trips in the late 1850s, when Edgar made many sketches and drawings of these paintings and frescoes in his personal notebooks.




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