The Flower Basket
Buzau
Kutahya
Swan princess
The Slave
Osthaus, Edmund Henry
Portrait of Cardinal Agucchi
John Currey Marin
Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Faith
A winter-s day on the swan
Chenega
Heyburn
Le dejeuner dans l-atelier -detail- -40-
Momper, Franqois de
Ferrara
The Nightwmatch -33-
Lamia
Early Snow at Louveciennes
The Tattooing Lesson
Self Portrait
art nude
Peto, John Frederick
Lewiston
La Mousme,Sitting -nn04-
Fleet sailing up the Channel,off Hasting
VARIN, Quentin
Crowning with Thorns a
Fine Arts
Realistic Red Rose
life still studio
Charles james lewis
Roger Delivering Angelica -05-
Deposition
Nvon
Agia Napa
Johannes Vermeer
Deposition gh25
Christ as a Warrior
The Courtyard of the Old Exchange in Ams
Rex
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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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