Quadro As Duas Fridas, by Frida Kahlo
Or quadro The Two Fridas (in Portuguese As Duas Fridas and in english The Two Fridas) was painted in 1939 in the most celebrated paintings of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
A work, made in oil, he presents two self-portraits and tries above all to draw up questões related to identity.
Na cloth painted in 1939 we found um double self portrait. Thus, Fridas climbed directly or spectator, olhos nos olhos, and trazem completely different clothes.
Frida is positioned on the skeleton side of a white cloth, in a Vitorian style, with puff sleeves and a high ruffle. O tecido seems to be refined because it presents many details, characterizing a typically European aesthetic. For Frida, standing on the direct side of the cloth, for the time being, wears a typically Mexican costume.
So both of them are sitting on a green bench, made of palha, on the side, and not perched. The only connections that occur between them and through an artery, that bind or heart exposed to one year or heart exposed to another, and as given.
Analyze the work As Duas Fridas
1. Or I found
Apart from the back of the cloth, it is characterized by a dark blue covering of nuvens. A disturbing scene, which possibly translated Frida's sentiment into or felt fragmented.
Seriam as nuvens an announcement of a possible storm? Will they serve as a warning to a disturbing near future? Seriam symbol of internal tumult lived by the painter?
2. Suits
The costumes are used in painting to differentiate the two personalities of Frida that live in harmony.
On the one hand, we see her European influence and a relationship that the painter established as a continent through her white and classic dress, with generous sleeves and muita renda. On the other side we see a suit Tehuana, peças de roupa that represent authentic Mexico, colorful, with live cores and more pele to show. A roupa escolhida face reference to maternal herança, from Oaxaca.
These representations are different from the painter sublinham to the existing duality, opposites that coexisted within the, as his genetic inheritance and a relationship that he established as his own country.
3. Or portrait that Frida Carrega
Na Frida positioned directly on the side of the cloth, we observe that the self-portrait carries a small object that, it was observed in detail, and identified as an image of the muralist painter Diego Rivera when criança.
Diego was great love (and also great torment) gives life to Frida, no by chance she is sure to imagem com a mão esquerda, from where sai to representation of uma veia that goes directly to or heart.
Convém sublinhar that not in the fact that a canvas was painted (1939), the painter was divorcing her husband.
It is curious to observe how the portrait of Diego (which works quase as a kind of amulet), is at the same height that he saw cut with a surgical treasure present in Frida Europeia.
4. Open legs
One of the two strengths of the Mexican painter was related to the fact that she was established with her own sexuality. Despite two dresses present in the painting, they will be quite behaved - with long dresses, high gola - it is possible to perceive the nuances of the cloth in the position where the protagonists are.
Especially in Frida who carries or Mexican costume we observe or position the most open legs, invoking the questão da sexualidade.
5. The hearts exposed
In painting we observe two corações exposed one time that self-portraits present an image as a peito aberto. This is the only organ that stands out, serving as a symbol that links the two representations of Frida.
Convém sublinhar that in Frida's hand located on the side of the cloth we see a surgical treasure that cuts a veia. Essa saw, by consequence, jorra or sangue that stains or white dress smearing. Or white here is quite symbolic because it alludes to European puritanism in opposition to the living hearts and the most relaxed position of Mexican Frida.
You Exposed hearts symbolize the centrality of the affect Feeling is important to Frida's personality.
6. To expressão
As two images of Frida Carregam resembling faces, we see two cases of expressões self-portraits dated, hard and enclosed.
As gloomy, Frida's two personalities seem to reflect on life and destiny.
7. União das mãos
You didn't see only two hearts that Fridas interconnected. This type of connection is related to a more emotional bond, and it is also important to emphasize that the two representations are also united through more days.
Thus more given we can symbolize to the intellectual union of two Frida personalities.
Self-portraits
Frida began to paint self-portraits systematically afterwards in an accident of years of years when she traveled on a bus. The artist has severe ferments and needs to take a long time in hospital.
DeITA, sozinha, sem ter or que fazer, the country will offer the idea of offering cavaletes and inks and dispose of a series of non-quarto spelhos, so that Frida can be observed from different angles. Assim começaram as criações two serious self-portraits of her.
In respect of the matter, a Mexican painter affirmed:
"I paint myself because I am sozinha and because I am or matter that I find myself melhor"
Characteristics of the work and location
To cloth As Duas Fridas, of great proportions, it can be 1.73 m high by 1.73 m long.
At the moment it is located in the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Mexico.
Conheça also
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- Frida Kahlo: life and work
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- Quadro Abaporu, by Tarsila do Amaral
Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).
