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Frida Kahlo Was a Painter, a Brand Builder, a Survivor. And So Much More | NY Times
“She frequently referred to herself as the great concealer.”
“But Kahlo did not conceal her pain, revealing her casts and leather braces with metal buckles in her work and turning her plaster corsets into art with elaborate designs of flowers, even a hammer and sickle. “She treated these second skins as canvases,” Ms. Small said.”
Kahlo seems to deliberately depict parts of herself she isn’t ashamed of. She, through her pain, depicts it and makes it into something seemingly transformative. The pain becomes a part of her artwork, becoming flowery and beautiful despite the representation of the aches associated with it. I sometimes like to do something similar with my work. I like and enjoy a lot of pretty imagery but I also find using art as a coping mechanism is equally helpful. I don’t think all art has to be “happy” nor does it have to be morbidly depressing. I feel it should be genuine, representative of your experience even if other people don’t understand every aspect.
Khan Academy Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada
“This densely populated work is difficult, if not impossible, to take in all at once.”
As someone who sometimes struggles with the spoken word, I enjoy creating illustrations and poetry that can be a bit emotionally worked. At times when creating my mind is blank, and other times it’s completely filled and I can’t concentrate on what I’m doing. Nonetheless, sometimes my work, according to others, can be hard to decipher or make any sense out of. I enjoy densely crafted artwork because of the possible spontaneity and complexity of meaning, though it doesn’t have to be complex. Of course, this is just my perception and opinion based on my own views. For instance, the “selfie” I posted? Probably a bunch of people won’t understand, but I’d be willing to explain. Every picture I have in that collage is something previously on my phone already from Highschool to college; all in my town, they’re places I’ve been, parts of my room, cats I’ve met, plants I’ve enjoyed, self portraits or eyes I made or painted. They’re all associations with my hometown with underlying feelings of wanting to get to a place of safeness and security, all the while feeling like I’m drowning in that same spot, looking for something better. I have other meanings but I can discuss that in class if needed. (I’m okay btw) :)
How to See Yourself
“The self-portrait showed to others the status of the person depicted.”
I still associate self portraits and images with being perceived, as I’ve stated in the past this scares me to a degree. At the same time, it depends on how much control you have in your depiction. When I have control of a self portrait I have to manually draw myself, it doesn’t really come out pretty or nice. It usually comes out… distressing I guess? I don’t usually draw myself happy like my other characters yet I don’t like taking selfies where I look depressed. Self portraits in actual images feel realer, obviously, but to a degree they’re also staged because I don’t want to be depicted as my anxious, worried state of mind. Instead, I’ll use my drawn art/self portraits for that.
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