Sunday, May 11, 2014

Frida Kahlo Paintings And Degas Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Best remembered for their pain and passion, Frida Kahlo paintings are known for their intense and vibrant colors. Mexicans celebrate them as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition while feminists praise them for their uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.

Vibrant Frida Kahlo paintings are characterized as Naive art or folk art and prominently feature Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition. They are also described as surrealist, as a matter of fact, in 1938, one surrealist described Frida as being a ribbon around a bomb.

The lifelong health problems of Frida are reflected in her works. Half of the Frida Kahlo paintings are self portraits of one sort or another. Because she is often alone and because she is one subject she knows best, Frida prefers to feature herself in her paintings. According to Frida, she was born a bitch and a painter.

Edgar Degas calls himself as either a realist or independent, despite Degas paintings receiving the label of being impressionistic in style. The fleeting moments in the flow of modern life is what Edgar sought to capture in his work.

Showing little interest in plein air landscapes, Degas paintings, instead, featured theatre and cafe scenes illuminated by artificial light. Edgar used this light to clarify the contours of his figures, completely adhering to his academic training.

Recognizing the artistic gifts of his son, Edgar's father took him frequently to Paris museums in an effort to encourage his efforts at drawing. Copies of Italian renaissance paintings at the Louvre consisted the early Degas paintings.

Starting in the studio of Louis Lamothe, Edgar was trained in the traditional academic style. This style put emphasis on line and insisted on the crucial importance of draftsmanship. Also strongly influencing Degas paintings were paintings and frescoes seen during long Italian trips in the late 1850s. These paintings and frescoes were recorded in Edgar's personal notebook in the form of sketches and drawings.




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