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Frida Kahlo, The Wounded Table, 1940
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6th, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico. Frida is known for her self portraits. Overall, she had a tough life growing up. Her work brings light to Mexican culture and power to the idea of feminism. Frida had polio as a child. In her teenage years, she was in a deadly bus accident and was in the hospital for an immense length of time. She fractured and broke many parts of her body. This led her to be very depressed and this darkness showed in her art.
In the painting, The Wounded Table, took place around 1940 of December when Frida officially divorced the love of her life, Diego Rivera. This painting illustrates Frida sitting at a wooden table with devious figures around her like the skeleton, a white monster like figure, and blood everywhere. Looking closer, one of Fridas arms are attached to an aluminum scary figure. This indicates that she is not herself and that she is broken. This breakup ruined her and she is not able to take control of her own life. This illuminates the societal issue of patriarchy which is the idea of having men being more respected and more powerful over a woman. The fact that this painting is showing Frida losing herself over a guy crushes the idea of feminism and feeds to patriarchy because it's showing how powerful a man is over a woman's life.
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