In today’s class we continued talking about Frida Kahla. She got into a bad accident when she was 18 and started her painting journey. She painted from her interest in naïve Colonial pictures and folk imagery. Her paintings derived from her mind and relationship in her lifetime. We looked closely at The Two Fridas, which she created wen she was divorcing her husband Rivera. On the left is a European version of Frida, all pale and sickly while on the right is a Mexican Frida, with darker skin and a more traditional outfit. This portrait identifies the trauma Frida went through.
We then looked into Neo-Plasticism. This style of art pursues the realization of utopian ideals. Then moved onto Post war art which was mainly abstract expressionism which emphasizes the direct emotions of the artists and the use of foreground and background to illustrate movement.