Frida Exhibit Analysis

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In the Mexico 1900-1950: The Frida Exhibit, I stumbled upon on a two dimensional piece from Frida Kahlo herself. The name of Frida’s painting is, Self- Portrait, very ugly (Autorretrato muy fea), 1933. The interesting portion of this portrait for me is the darkness she applied around her large eyes. Also, the title gave me the indication that her painting was about a depressing emotion. Frida gave several examples of visual elements and principle designs that were learned this past semester. As for visual elements, she executed color and texture elements through the painting. Using warm and dark colors gave the signs of an unhappiness woman of her outer self. Frida did not abuse the color black, which allowed the value of the other colors to be displayed in the …show more content…

The visual weight is uneven from a horizontal view point when examining her painting. Like mentioned before the left side has a concrete look that gives off a rough feeling. The right side has a darker emotional feel to it considering the black and warm colors used on Frida’s portrait. Other concepts like emphasis and subordination were portrayed favorably when analyzing this wonderful piece. “Emphasis means that our attention is drawn more to certain parts of a composition than to others. If the emphasis is on a relatively small, clearly defined area, we call this a focal point. Subordination means that certain areas of the composition are purposefully made less visually interesting, so that the areas of emphasis stand out” (Page 127). Her self- portrait’s emphasis part of the painting grabbed my attention by the darkness in her face. The subordination aspect of the illustration is located on the outer left of the painting. This half has a better vivid irregular surface that allows for my attention to be drawn to the dark side. Out of Frida Kahlo’s art exhibit, Self- Portrait, very ugly, fascinated my interest by how small this portrait is, but how loud her emotions expressed themselves in the

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