The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel
The Fat Kitchen
La Vierge imposant la chasuble a saint I
Thomas Shotter Boys
Young Greeks at the Mosque
Queen Isabella of Bourbon
FARINATI, Paolo
Vas
Siedlce
Olivehurst
Portrait of a Widow
TISCHBEIN, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm
New York
Fire-s On
The Reading Room at the Chateau de Malro
Girl in a Blue Dress wer
The flagellation
Cizre
Young Woman Sewing in the Garden
Still Life with Musical instruments -08-
Chloe, Dulcis Docta Modos et Citherae Sc
Ventspils
Une matinee -11-
Henry,Prince of Wales -25-
Nativity
Martyrdom of St Lawrence df
Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door
Spisska Nova Ves
Hanaford
Cover Painting for The Country Gentleman
Tempe
Portrait of Queen Elisabeth dfg
mirror rearview
Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice
An Englisher in Moscow
The Lute Player fg
St.Eligius
Young Man Beside the Sea A study -05-
Ordway
View of Monte Video, Seat of Daniel
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Frida Kahlo:
1907-54
Mexican painter, b. Coyoacen. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits incorporating a personal symbolism complete with graphic anatomical references. She was also influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, aspects of which she portrayed in bright colors, with a mixture of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married. Although Kahlo's work is sometimes classified as surrealist and she did exhibit several times with European surrealists, she herself disputed the label. Her preoccupation with female themes and the figurative candor with which she expressed them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th cent.
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