Your paper assignment is based upon your reading of Frida in America, which charts Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s personal and creative journey while living in the United States. Each week you’ve been reading a chapter or two and responding to specific questions on Canvas. Now, you have the opportunity to think more deeply about some of the art and issues you’ve been reading about. Sadly, many of the tensions and issues that Kahlo encountered while living in the United States are still with us today, such as racial injustice, huge disparities between the wealthy and the poor, anti-immigrant sentiments/laws, narrow ideas about gender and gender-based discrimination, and streets filled with social protests.
In the paper, you’ll have an opportunity to reflect upon Kahlo’s experiences and the art that resulted from these experiences, as well as your own experiences and thoughts concerning similar issues today.
For your paper, I’d like you to choose one topic from the list below of experiences Frida had while living in the U.S. Then, I’d like you to reflect on the impact of these experiences on her as a person and artist, as many of these experiences inspired paintings or photographs taken by other artists. Second, I’d like you to reflect upon similar events/experiences you’re having or witnessing today and compare the events of today with the events of the early 1930s, including your own responses to these events.
The following are examples of experiences and paintings/photographs to choose from (Choose one topic and two works of art from that topic):
1) Racial injustice and the impact on African Americans (Endurance contest, Jim Crow segregation laws in Arkansas, the Scottsboro Case, protests in NY).
Paintings: Portrait of Eva Frederick and My Dress Hangs There.
Photograph: Lucienne Bloch’s Frida Under the Sign “For Negroes.”
3) Images of Frida as representations of Mexicanidad (How people respond to Frida and her outfits, how experiencing SF’s Chinatown impacts Frida, attitudes toward female beauty as seen with the challenges of the India Bonita contest in Mexico).
Paintings: Marriage Portrait, known as Frieda and Diego Rivera and Self-Portrait with Necklace
Photographs: Imogen Cunningham’s Frida Kahlo Rivera and Edward Weston’s Frieda Kahlo
4) Innovative images of the female body (Critic’s negative response to the painting Henry Ford Hospital, attitudes toward women, birth, and abortion, Frida’s fears of giving birth, attitudes toward birth and death, Frida’s experience of her mother’s death, depicting a miscarriage and the birth process, unusual images of the nude female body according to a European art standard, but not unheard of in Aztec art).
Paintings: Henry Ford Hospital and My Birth.
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