Monday, October 10, 2011

Practice Post #4 - Evaluating Art

Artist: Frida Kahlo

Formal evaluation: Kahlo painted herself in a frontal pose to enhance her presence. She used nature to emphasize her image and to provide harmony. Her technique was unique and innovative because she used her own unique folkloric style of painting.

Contextual evaluation:  Kahlo painted   around 200 painting, drawing and sketches related her experiences of life like she was wrote a diary in each painting she expressed her life and her feeling.  

Expressive evaluation:
Kahlo uses her Mexican culture to symbolic many things in her painting. For example, in Mexican folk tradition, dead hummingbirds were used as charms to bring luck to love, black cat is a symbol bad luck or death, and butterflies represent the resurrection.

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