Madonna and Child
Water-Lilies
Venus Consoling Love
Pompanobeach
DUYSTER, Willem Cornelisz.
MOLYN, Pieter de
PREDIS, Ambrogio de
Nave Nave Moe
Thomas Young Seymour
Christ the Judge
Suicide of Lucretia
Restaurant at Marly-le-Roi
Study of Figure Outdoors
National Museums Liverpool
Sunset at St. Charles, Eragny
Brescia
Section
Portrait of a Woman er
Noonday Rest
Laurelhill
sexy body
Richfield
The Horse Trade -13-
Francis Sartorius
Self Portrait
BECCAFUMI, Domenico
The Martyrdom of St.Bartholomew
naturalism
layout myspace scenery
Bath
A Pantry
Pyramus and Thisbe
Napoleon Crossing the Alps -08-
Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard
An Architectural Caprice
Orono
Greyhound Catching a Young Wild Boar wr
John Roddam Spencer
Nourse, Elizabeth
O'kean
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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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