| Generally Frida Kahlo has been regarded as a symbol of beauty, of strength in adversity, and a kind of phoenix that through art rises from the ashes of her life experience. Little emphasis has been placed on her sociological views and political activism. Frida used images of her own body and face to express her ideas, as a result of this some art critics and historians have believed her art to be strictly personal. However, her physical self was at the crossroads between her internal life and her external life, in other words it was the place where psychology and sociology met. Therefore, the statements that Frida made using depictions of her physical self were also statements about society at large.;The themes of Mexican ethnic and cultural identity, Marxism, feminism and the struggle of the sick and disabled are clearly present in her paintings. This research is dedicated to exploring and analyzing the sociological content of Frida Kahlo's artistic expression by focussing on four of her striking paintings: A Few Little Pricks, 1935, My Nurse and I, 1937, Tree of Hope, Keep Firm, 1946, and Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick, 1954. |
