Analysis Of Kahlo's Henry Ford Hospital

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In 1932, Kahlo produced her more surrealist painting, 'Henry Ford Hospital' (See Fig 4) where a naked Kahlo appears on a hospital bed surrounded by several item including a foetus, a snail, a flower and a pelvis all floating, connected to her by red, threadlike veins. This work again was so intimate, this time depicting her second miscarriage. Rivera quotes 'in the annals of art, Frida is the only person ever to have ripped open her breast and torn out her heart to tell the truth in biological terms and say what is felt inside' (Alcantara and Egnolff 1999:69)

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