The Grand Canal Seen from Rialto toward
Dierick Berck
Bust of a Woman with Yellow Corsage
Self-Portrait before a Birch Wood
The Cleptomaniac
Sylacauga
Salem
Valpincon Bather -09-
Californiacity
Seated Young Girl-Helene Bellon-
Contes barbares
Gonzales Coques
Still life Blue Enamel Coffeepot Earthen
Slaves Escaping Through the Swamp
Sixtus IV,his Nephews and his Librarian
Emperor Valentinian Before Bishop Basil
February
Details of St.Eligius
York
The Rt Hon Timothy Healy,Governor Genera
water colors
Vase with Carnation and Roses and a Bott
The Moneylender and his Wife -detail- sg
Cutler
Delvine
Tahitian Women -On the Beach- -09-
Anbetung der Hirten
bar stretcher
Gillis Mostaert
COXCIE, Raphael
Venus and Cupid
Reclining Nude-The Baker-
The Artist and his Family
Tobias and the Tree Archangels
The Still life Chess-board
Crucifixion dsh
A Woman
Suncitywest
Still life with flowers,A Paper-weight,a
frescos
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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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