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Frida's paintings

 Frida Kahlo's paintings

  Through her life Frida painted many works with different meanings. I thought that I will show you few of them with an explanation of the symbolism because it can be sometimes hard to understand.

"Henry Ford Hospital"
This is a portrait of Frida, she painted after an abortion in America in 1932, she was there because of husband's work. It was a very traumatic moment of her life. We see her lying in a hospital bed, covered in blood. There are 6 "veins" that comes from her stomach and connect with: a baby, the one that she always wanted to have, snail that symbolizes a slow and painful abortion, a purple flower that her husband had given to her, 
woman's organs detached from the body which show the way she was thinking about herself that she's useless as a woman because she wasn't able to carry out the pregnancy.
There are also some surgical tools, painted in cold, blue colours and pelvis which symbolize physical pain.


A Few Small Nips (1935)-"Unos quantos piquetitos". This painting is ispired by the real life event. It is supposed that Frida read in the newspaper a history of a man who killed his wife. When he was asked about the purpose he said that "all I did was give her a few small nips.". 
It may also show the influence of her husband's love affairs, which hurt her a lot.

Frida painted a lot of macabric and drastic pictures with blood, human organs and bones but not all of her works were in that "style". Here are some of them and they're also full of symbolism.
Thinking of Diego        (left side)     
Self-portrait with thorn necklace





The loving embrace of the Universe(left side)         self portrait with cropped hair

                                       "the bride frightened at seeing life opened"

 Paintings:
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