Recommended: Frida film critique
Simone began recording her music in the 50s under the Bethlehem label, releasing her first full album in 1957, which featured "Plain Gold Ring" and the title track "Little Girl Blue." It also included her one and only Top 20 pop hit with her version of "I Loves You Porgy" from the George and Ira Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess. Under different labels, Simone released a bevy of albums from the late '50s throughout the '60s and early '70s, including records like The Amazing Nina Simone (1959), Nina Simone Sings Ellington! (1962), Wild Is the Wind (1966) and Silk and Soul (1967). She also made cover songs of popular music, eventually putting her own spin on such songs as Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun.
Nina Simone was an iconic singer, pianist, and civil rights activist who made a lasting impact on music and society. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone was the sixth of eight children in a poor family. Despite her family's financial struggles, Simone showed an early aptitude for music and began playing piano at a young age. Simone's talent soon became evident to her family and community, and they raised money to pay for her music lessons.
- Frida paints what she sees within herself, her own point of view
Frida Kahlo was a female Mexican painter. Her work was not only unique but personal as well. At the beginning of her life, many obstacles were presented to her. This difficult circumstances pushed her to have a creative outlet. Thus creating beautiful masterpieces with heart and soul poured into them.
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo When Frida Kahlo painted, The Two Fridas she was dealing with the divorce of her husband and embraced herself fully. In this masterpiece Frida illustrates her past and current self with divine detail with her skills of her brush. Frida creates a timeline through herself portrait of what was and is now by captivating her audience through the struggles of divorce, a heart condition, and losing herself. In the painting, she creates a picture in the audience eyes of her inner turmoil by illustrating through ethos and pathos.
Frida was unhappy. Death was always on her mind all the time. In this portrait you can see a skull and crossbones on her forehead. Hey eyes don’t look sad anymore they look tired.
When a picture is really looked at, there can be so many thoughts and questions flowing through one’s mind. This still animation, from an unknown author, is that of a simple situation but everything can be analyzed to create a better image of that painting. This picture can incite a storm is coming, a feeling of relaxation, there is proof of what time of year and day it is, and there are some clues to the women’s personality. In the top right corner of the photograph, it is easy to see that there is a large accumulation of clouds.
This essay examines one of the many self-portrait paintings by Frida Kahlo called ‘broken column’ (1944). In this painting Kahlo portrays herself as a complete full bodied woman while also reflecting her broken insides. She stands alone against a surreal barren fissured landscape that echoes the open wound in her torso. A broken stone column replaces her damaged spine and is protected by a white orthopaedic corset, while sharp nails pierce into her olive naked flesh. Frida is partially nude except for the corset and white bandages.
Drooling tears run down her chin. Between her beautifully shaped breasts is a fissure, and a broken column in place of her spine is revealed. There she is—broken, penetrated, yet beautiful Frida Kahlo portrayed in The Broken Column. Suffering was a recurrent theme in Frida Kahlo’s life.
She was among the famous Surrealists. There was a Mexican revolution in 1910. She changed her birth year in 1910, so that people could associate her with the Mexican revolution (Frida). When she was studying medicine in 1925, she got into a severe bus accident. It injured her to a level, where she almost had to go through 35 medical surgeries.
Frida Kahlo is a very famous artist who was born on July 6, 1907, in Mexico in the house of her parents where was later referred as the Blue House or Casa Azul. Her father, Guillermo Kahlo was born in 1872 in carl Wilhelm Kahlo in Germany and he was also a very famous painter that has done many beautiful paintings throughout his life. Frida’s mother, Matilda Calderon Gonzalez was a dedicated Catholic of primarily indigenous. She was a very caring mother who dedicated her life to all her 8 kids, she helped them become successful people and to always follow there dreams and not let anything stop them from what they want to do. She was a strict mom, although she tried her best to raise happy and successful children.
Throughout history, art has been used to explore the identity of individuals and of society. Two artists who encapsulate both society and their own identities through their works are, Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman. Frida Kahlo (1907- 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her "surrealist" self-portraits. Kahlo's paintings "The Two Frida's" and "Self-portrait with cropped hair" embody Kahlo's personal struggles with her identity throughout her life. Contrastingly, Cindy Sherman (1954- ) is an American photographer and film director knows most famously for her controversial portraits.
Poliomyelitis caused weakening of the one leg so students called “wooden leg Frida”. In school years, she saw the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera for the first time. Rivera at that time was working on a mural called The Creation on the school campus. Frida often watched it and she told a friend she will marry him someday.
Frida Kahlo created many glorious pieces. One of her most intriguing pieces is The Two Fridas. The image is quite symbolic and meaningful. Kahlo was a Mexican artist greatly known for her self portraits and the pain, passion and feminism of her paintings. The name of the piece I choose to analysis is Las dos Fridas, also known as The Two Fridas.
This movie shows Pollock’s chaotic marriage to Lee Krasner who was also a painter, his all-time fight with alcoholism and in 1956, a car accident which caused his disastrous death. 9. Frida (2002) Frida Kahlo who was a surrealist Mexican painter was the focus of this biographic movie film which was directed by Julie Taymor. This biopic shows Frida’s background in Mexico City, her turbulent marriage to another painter, Diego Rivera, and her ultimate appreciation as a well-known artist.
