Frida Kahlo Feminism Movement and expression of political views
1. Andersen, Corrine. “Remembrance of an Open Wound: Frida Kahlo and Post-revolutionary Mexican Identity”. South Atlantic Review 74.4 (2009): 119–130. Web...
My first choice for a secondary source Remembrance of an Open Wound: Frida Kahlo and Post-Revolutionary Mexican Identity reflects on Kahlo’s Mexican Tradition shown throughout her artwork with images of Mexican traditional dresses and other symbols of Mexican heritage. Kahlo also expresses some political views of the comparing North America to Mexico in her painting My Dress Hangs There (1933) and Self-Portrait on The Boarder both showing views of the industrialized Americas during her visit in N.Y. “The entire scene serves
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As stated in previous assignments Kahlo was always considered unique or could even be seen as rebellious for a women of her time period she cut her hair short, wore men’s clothes was one of the first girls in a prep school in Mexico as well as hung out with boys argued and expressed her political views, she smoked had affairs with both men and women and Kahlo paintings were considered extremely raw considered comparing to other female artist at the time as well as the way she chose to express herself through art. “Kahlo (1097-1954), the iconic Mexican artist of the post-revolutionary period, has become in recent times an overlooked sign for feminism, mexicanidad, bisexuality, lesbianism, victimhood, glamour and disfigurement, among all possibilities.” (Volk, pg. 168) This article also discusses Kahlo’s Political involvement like being a part of Mexico’s Communist party and her involvement with Trotsky both also mention in previous assignments. Kahlo was known for her interest in Marxism and Communist leaders from her debates in school to her painting like Self Portrait wit …show more content…
Kahlo growing up during the Mexican Revolution and post revolution, experiencing pain and heartbreak contribute to her messages in art. Many Mexicans in the 1920s followed the words and views of Marxism and the Communist party for Mexico it symbolized nationalism. For Kahlo she expressed Mexican culture in her art also showing many Aztec Symbols and traditions. The article also discusses Kahlo’s views of the U.S Industrialization pointing out the same as secondary source 1 and also discusses Kahlo’s contributions to the feminist movement in the United states around the 1970’s. “Kahlo has become something of a heroine to the US feminist who admire the devastating frankness with which she recorded specifically female experience- Birth, miscarriage, unhappiness in
Ester Hernandez is a Chicana artist, best known for her works of Chicana women. Ester’s goal is to recreate women’s lives to produce positive images of women’s lifestyle and to create icons. Her piece, Frida y Yo, contains the iconic painter Frida Kahlo. Frida, after being in multiple accidents causing long-term pain and suffering, began painting, mostly self-portraits, to portray her reality and glorify the pain. Similar to how Hernandez's goals are a juxtaposition to Frida’s artwork, the art piece Frida y Yo creates a juxtaposition between life and suffering and death and fortune.
Blackwell was able to conduct with the pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez, along with the members of Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc. She talks about the families of Anna NietoGomez, Corinne Sanchez, and also Sylvia Castillo; and what brought them to activism. She uses Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge to help understand the ways in which the Chicanas have been omitted from the social histories of the Chicano and women’s movements.
Barbara Carrasco is an artist and muralist based in Los Angeles. Her works range from pen and ink drawings, to paintings, to posters and countless murals. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Barbara Carrasco is considered to be a renegade feminist. Her art is known for critiquing, dominant cultural stereotypes involving socioeconomic, race, gender and sexuality.(Revision history statistics "Barbara Carrasco" 2017)She is known for bringing awareness to the Chicano art movement and their sexist attitudes sometimes seen in Chicano art. Barbara Carrasco works in advocating to change treatment of women. I decided to do my research paper because I believe that there's a difference between how a Chicano depicts and paint images and how a Chicana depicts and paints images. As a Latina woman, learning about Barbara Carrasco
In his essay "Selena’s Good Buy: Texas Mexicans, History, and Selena Meet Transnational Capitalism,” Coronado (2001) argues that Selena embodies displaced desires that need to be situated in their historical content. By looking at how Texans and marketers reacted to Selena’s death, Coronado was able to show us how Selena’s death can be looked at form a psychoanalytic lens. The working class’ obsession with Selena can be seen as a fetish of sorts. A fetish is caused by trauma and can be applied socially to a irritable social construct. In other words, Selena could be a social fetish; the Latinx working class abruptly lost someone who was representing them in mainstream media, leading to the trauma. In this theory, Selena is no longer seen as a person who contributed hugely to the rise of colored people in mainstream media, but as
Frida Kahlo nació el 6 de Julio 1907 en la ciudad de México. Ella les dijo a muchas personas que nació el 7 de Julio 1910 porque quiso parecer más joven a los otros. Aunque sus padres fueron judíos, Frida nació en México. Frida fue una artista surrealista y sus obras vió de sus emociones de la tristexa y la cólera de su vida. Ella le encantó decir los chistes, reír, y sonreír. Frida Kahlo llevó las ropas de la cultura tradicional de México porque pensó que las ropas fueran una forma del arte. Todo el mundo admiró mucho a Frida, a causa de sus obras y su actitud.
The popular revolutionary poem “I am Joaquin” by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales influenced many Chicana/os to embrace their heritage in the Chicano Movement in the 1960s. The poem created psychological work for the Chicano identity. Moreover, this poem developed and promoted social consciousness, commitment to activism, and cultural pride for many Chicanos. However, Gonzales primarily focuses on the identity and struggles of a Mexican-American male which excludes other narratives. Thus, the lack of inclusivity influenced me to recreate the popular poem, which centers on women from Central America who are rarely acknowledged in Chicano Studies. Therefore, our poem “I am Dolores” is focused on these three main themes: empowerment of women of color, resistance
Frida Kahlo was an amazing woman whose many tragedies influenced her to put her stories into her paintings. She was born in July 6th 1907 to a Mexican Roman Catholic mother who was of Indian and Spanish decent and a German photographer father. Frida had three sisters, Mitilde and Adriana, who were older and Christina who was younger. She learned about Mexican history, art and architecture by looking at her father’s photography. When Frida was six she got polio and it was a long time before she would heal completely. After surviving polio, Frida’s right leg became weak and thin, so her father encouraged her to play sports to help her.
Using both English and Spanish or Spanglish the author Gloria Anzaldua explores the physical, cultural, spiritual, sexual and psychological meaning of borderlands in her book Borderlands/La Frontera: A New Mestiza. As a Chicana lesbian feminist, Anzaldua grew up in an atmosphere of oppression and confusion. Anzaldua illustrates the meaning of being a “mestiza”. In order to define this, she examines herself, her homeland and language. Anzaldúa discusses the complexity of several themes having to do with borderlands, mestizaje, cultural identity, women in the traditional Mexican family, sexual orientation, la facultad and the Coatlicue state. Through these themes, she is able to give her readers a new way of discovering themselves. Anzaldua alerts us to a new understanding of the self and the world around us by using her personal experiences.
Torres, Hector Avalos. 2007. Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers. U.S.: University of New Mexico press, 315-324.
Frida Kahlo is known for the most influential Latin American female artist. She is also known as a rebellious feminist. Kahlo was inspired to paint after her near-death bus incident when she was 17. After this horrendous incident that scarred her for life, she went under 35 different operations. These operations caused her extreme pain and she was no longer able to have kids. Kahlo’s art includes self portraits of her emotions, pain, and representations of her life. Frida Kahlo was an original individual, not only in her artwork but also in her
Fuentes, C. (1995). The Diary of Frida Kahlo An Intimate Self-Portrait. New York: A Times Mirror Company.
Born in 1910, Frida was a woman that was not about preserving young beauty. She loved to acquaint herself with Mexico, where she was born. Being a great painter, she loved to paint pictures of herself. A quote by her is as follows “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best”. In other words, she can paint and feel free, because she knows herself well and can paint the
In the center of the painting is her as a child. To the right is her father, a “German-born Jewish and a photographer” (moma.org p1 ). Above him are her grandparents drawn above the water. With this she symbolizes that her paternal origins are from overseas, European and Jewish heritage. Her mother Matilde at the left is “half Amerindian and half Spanish” (FK.org). Above Matilde are Kahlo’s grandparents which are located above land. Cactus and mountains symbolize that the origins of her maternal grandparents have inhabited Mexican land for generations. These cultural points are very important to Kahlo although an important part of her heritage is left out of this
Fuentes, Carlos. "Introduction ." In Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait, 16. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 2001.
The eternal endeavor of obtaining a realistic sense of selfhood is depicted for all struggling women of color in Gloria Anzaldua’s “Borderlands/La Frontera” (1987). Anzaldua illustrates the oppressing realities of her world – one that sets limitations for the minority. Albeit the obvious restraints against the white majority (the physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico), there is a constant and overwhelming emotional battle against the psychological “borderlands” instilled in Anzaldua as she desperately seeks recognition as an openly queer Mestiza woman. With being a Mestiza comes a lot of cultural stereotypes that more than often try to define ones’ role in the world – especially if you are those whom have privilege above the “others”.