Frida Kahlo: Borderline Between Mexico And The US
Frida Kahlo
Are you part of two cultures? If yes you are not unlike Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican artist. Frida Kahlo was born and raised in Mexico the child of a European atheist and a Mexican catholic. Kahlo became a painter as the result of a horrible bus accident at the age of eighteen, painting was the only way she could truly express how she felt. She married Diego Rivera, another famous Mexican artist. As the result of being famous Frida Kahlo lived in the United States for some time and she also became friends with Pablo Picasso and she was considered a surrealist (Amazing Women).
In the painting Self-portrait on the borderline between Mexico and the United States, Frida Kahlo stands on pedestal, which has an inscription in Spanish, the pedestal is the symbolic …show more content…
She shows this by wearing an outfit typical of that time worn by women in the United States. Frida Kahlo is smoking a cigarette and pointing it towards the United States, showing that it came from the U.S. (Kahlo). If you belong in a place you partake in the customs and begin wearing clothes from that region. Frida Kahlo is wearing and American dress and smoking a cigarette. Therefore Frida Kahlo belongs in the industrialized United States. The pedestal that Frida is standing on is plugged into the machines of the United States. In the painting you can see that wires are the new roots of the U.S. and they connect to the roots of Mexico symbolizing that Frida Kahlo has new roots in the United States (Kahlo). If you belong in a country or place you show that you are connected in some way to that world and you show that you have roots or connections on that particular place. Frieda Kahlo illustrates this by being plugged into the machines of the U.S. and by having roots there as well. Frida Kahlo shows in her painting that she belongs in the industrialized United
Are you part of two cultures? If yes you are not unlike Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican artist. Frida Kahlo was born and raised in Mexico the child of a European atheist and a Mexican catholic. Kahlo became a painter as the result of a horrible bus accident at the age of eighteen, painting was the only way she could truly express how she felt. She married Diego Rivera, another famous Mexican artist. As the result of being famous Frida Kahlo lived in the United States for some time and she also became friends with Pablo Picasso and she was considered a surrealist (Amazing Women).
In the painting Self-portrait on the borderline between Mexico and the United States, Frida Kahlo stands on pedestal, which has an inscription in Spanish, the pedestal is the symbolic …show more content…
She shows this by wearing an outfit typical of that time worn by women in the United States. Frida Kahlo is smoking a cigarette and pointing it towards the United States, showing that it came from the U.S. (Kahlo). If you belong in a place you partake in the customs and begin wearing clothes from that region. Frida Kahlo is wearing and American dress and smoking a cigarette. Therefore Frida Kahlo belongs in the industrialized United States. The pedestal that Frida is standing on is plugged into the machines of the United States. In the painting you can see that wires are the new roots of the U.S. and they connect to the roots of Mexico symbolizing that Frida Kahlo has new roots in the United States (Kahlo). If you belong in a country or place you show that you are connected in some way to that world and you show that you have roots or connections on that particular place. Frieda Kahlo illustrates this by being plugged into the machines of the U.S. and by having roots there as well. Frida Kahlo shows in her painting that she belongs in the industrialized United