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
She inspired many women to overcome their barriers as well as advertising surrealism, that so many believe her work was influenced by. Frida changed so much in people with just a swipe of a paint brush. Frida had already experience so much early on, her childhood was full of complications and not at all your average child's life. “At the age of 6 Frida contracted polio ‘, a viral illness that may cause paralysis , difficulty breathing and
In the Two Fridas, we see two different characteristics of the same person, eventhough they represent two different people. The Frida on the left illustrates herself in a traditional European dress with a cut exposing her broken heart. On the right side, Frida is in a Mexican attire dress with a full beating heart and is holding a picture of her now ex-husband Diego Rivera. Frida choice of colors for this painting are dark and creates a sense of yearning for someone.
The animals in the paintings include a cat (signifies on being catty), a monkey (substitute for children she could not have), a butterfly (transformation), and her thorn necklace that pierced her flesh (shows suffering). These animals and objects created a spotlight on her emotional and physical pain throughout her life. Such as these events that we are able to discover in Frida Kahlo ’s artwork, metaphors are used to fill semantic gaps when new concepts emerge, just like how it is being used within science. When an image gets produced, it becomes a reference point for other images and the meaning will change according to how the individual will view it.
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.
This painting was created in 1939 by Frida Kahlo. Kahlo created this painting shortly after her divorce with her then husband Diego Rivera. It is said that the painting is used to represent the different sole characteristics of Frida. One of the images represents the traditional Frida in Tehuana costume with a broken heart, the other is seen as an modern day independent Frida. The period of the artwork
When she was in that school, she met Diego Rivera. At that time, he was working on a mural called the creation on the school campus. Frida fell in love with him and even told a friend that she is going to marry him one day. At the same year, while Frida still attended National Preparatory School in Mexico, she joined a group of friends and fell in love with the leader Alegjandro Gomez Arias. On September afternoon, she traveled with Alegjandro Gomez Arias on a bus, and that’s when the tragic accident happened… the bus bumped a streetcar and Frida was seriously and severely
Fridas troubled life has made an great impact on her career of painting. In the painting has a lyric of a Mexican song “Look if I loved you It was because of your hair, now that you are without hair, I don’t love you anymore. After divorcing Diego, they still remained friends. In the portrait shows the love and the
In Self-Portrait the images on both sides of the border can be understood as the ideological tools of national propaganda. Kahlo keeps the history alive as she portrays a true vision of Mexico. Frida celebrates the cross-cultural identity that Mexico embraced after the turmoil of the revolution - a heritage of, Indian, American, Spanish, and British to just name a few. Her paintings became a connecting thread of Mexico’s history as she did not neglect tying the time in which she lived to the Aztec past (pbs.org). Victor Zamaudio-Taylor, an art historian, states that she has become "a model for Mexican Americans and Hispanics in the United States because she nurtures a sense of who [we] are and of a long history and of continuities."
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.
In this film, Frida was played by Salma Hayek and Diego Rivera was played by Alfred Molina. The movie Frida also featured Antonio Banderas, Mia Maestro, Valeria Golino, Geoffrey Rush, Roger Rees, Edward Norton and Ashley Judd. 10. Basquiat (1996) The film was directed by Julian Schnabel who was also an artist.
