Self-trained Mexican artist
1907-1954
She refuses the male-dominant language of high art
worked in what has been called “dialect", which embraced the peripheries of “folk” art
Draw women’s body and her own direct experiences come into focus
What makes Frida feminist?
Most of her works are self-portraits which show an iconic figure of herself; strong, enduring, endlessly suffering, but beautiful. What her diaries reveal is a much less assured woman than her paintings suggest; a woman whose identity hinged on her relationship with her husband; a woman whose identity was shattered through the shattering of her body. Frida drew an underlying oppressive view of female sexuality. the dominance of her relationship with her husband in the representation of her self.
This picture left shows woman’s womb a baby inside. Frida expresses the strength of woman and their importance.
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