Kahlo’s What the Water Gave me
On first viewing, one would assume that Frida Kahlo's What the Water Gave me displays a female's feet in a bathtub. A deeper look would show that this oil painting to be more than just that. This piece of art represented her life up to her present time in 1938. Kahlo allowed us to see what her life story was in many of juxtaposition of images. In this painting she painted her feet and legs sitting in a tub of water. Her art was always honest and she never made herself more or less than what she was. This painting reveals mythology, eroticism, botany, and iconography spread across of the legs of the artist in bath water. Kahlo would express the pain and misery she endured from a young age. An analysis of Kahlo’s
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She is famous for her paintings as well as her self6 portraits. She was inspired by her Mexican culture and applies that to her art. Kahlo was one of four daughters to a Spanish mother and Hungarian father. During her childhood, Kahlo dealt with undiagnosed polio and spina bifida. She was diagnosed at the age of twenty-three years old. At eighteen, she was involved in a bus crash which left her with extreme injuries. She spent a year in bed due to recovering. While she was recovering, she found her father’s paint oils and began painting. From there onward, her artwork became her memoir. Kahlo started analyzing herself and studying her body. She realized that she found a new love for art and couldn’t separate herself from this. Even though she was disabled for the rest of her life, she got married. Kahlo eloped with a famous muralist Diego Rivera and she found her marriage ruined her emotional and mental state. Their relationship consisted of divorce, adultery, job pressures, Kahlo’s own bisexual infidelities and not being able to have children. Her other sketches and drawings showed all of this emotional and physical pain. What the Water Gave me replicated her torment of abuse and physical