Two Cypresses
Yard-Winter
The Music Lesson -08-
WITHOOS, Mathias
Dolansprings
Thomas Killigrew and William, Lord Croft
Meyer, Jeremiah
The Trinity and Four Saints
Judith
Balaam-s Ass
Clarkesville
Belisarius
Pearl of Brabant
Blond Bather
Luke Clennell
Details of The Miraculous Rescue of St P
Approaching Storm
Hirst, Claude Raguet
Mars and Venus
Rayle
Pearce, Charles Sprague
Vas
Regents of the Walloon Orphanage gw
Recreation by our Gallery
Life is a Struggle -The Golden Knight- -
Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot
Benevento
Federico Barocci
Day
The Aegean Sea
Vorumaa
The Promenade
Recreation by our Gallery
North Uist
Mountainous Landscape behind Saint-Paul
Bilasuvar
Carnations and Clematis in a Crystal Vas
dynamic sensuousness
The Apotheosis of St Benedict
The Crucifixion of St Andrew dfg
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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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