Autoportrait – le temps vole Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

Description of Frida Kahlo’s painting Self-Portrait

This creative personality was born in Mexico in 1907. For all her tragic biography, she was a cheerful and cheerful woman with her mystique and dreams of a new future.

This is what allowed her to convey all her mental anguish and pain, tears and loss of the incomprehensible and many other things that bound her fate when she painted. At the same time in Kahlo’s works one can see not only the influence of popular Mexican culture and art, but also of European painting. The style of naivety and simplicity, one might say, somewhere rudeness is emphasized in her paintings.

Much of her work is dedicated to herself, as Frida spent a long time alone. Because of a car accident she was bedridden and painted lying down. It was this event that turned her entire future life upside down. But in none of her self-portraits does Frida feel joy or smile. She is always serious. Her eyebrows are furrowed, she has a faint tendril above her lips, which are always tightly pressed together. Her black, beautiful and long hair is always neatly tucked at the back of her head in a bun or loose over her shoulders. The face and neck are open.

Strictness and strength of character can be felt in her self-portrait. Her long and beautiful neck is sometimes framed by a necklace. Her shoulders are straight, her head is raised and her back is straight, giving the impression of a beautiful and proud posture. The color scheme of the self-portraits makes the viewer think, as it is mostly gray, of darkish tones. It rather emphasizes both austerity and the heroine’s not quite, perhaps, healthy or painfully sad mood.

What could she be sad about? About her failed attempt to become a mother, or maybe about life not so easy. But despite such a difficult fate, Frida left behind a large legacy of about 200 paintings, not including sketches.