Frida Kahlo’s Transcendental Understanding Of Life

Frida Kahlo’s(1907-1954)artwork reveals how the relationship between humans and nature is influenced and governed by the dominant patterns of power in human society.Her works appear to involve a great deal of natural themes and sensual artistic language,but deep down they contain the author’s overlapping interactions and rational reflections on issues of class,gender,and race,a style that,from an ecofeminist perspective,is always inevitably linked to her concern for the underprivileged in human society.Although Frida Kahlo is a member of the elite upper class in Mexico,she has a perception of transcendence of class,which she uses as the fundamental tone of her artistic creation.Frida Kahlo’s transcendent feminist perspective is not deliberate,but has its own developmental lineage.Her understanding of gender relations has gone through four stages:the first stage is to question the male-dominated view of gender;the second stage is to identify with the male-dominated view of gender;the third stage is to question and challenge the male-dominated view of gender;and the fourth stage is to develop a perspective with a macroscopic dimension of care,which crosses the boundaries of gender,race and class.Frida Kahlo’s artistic growth trajectory overlaps with her life growth trajectory,and as an individual,her ideological development trajectory also implicitly fits into the development history of Western feminism,which is typical.Therefore,understanding eco-feminism becomes an ideal path to interpret Frida Kahlo’s artistic creation.This paper focuses on the eco-feminist perspective in Frida Kahlo’s works,and digs deeper into the eco-ethical wisdom revealed in her works,in order to give a higher dimensional perspective to the interpretation of Frida Kahlo’s works and the related studies of her case.This paper is divided into three parts,namely,the introduction,the body,and the conclusion.The introductory essay is a comprehensive overview and summary of the existing research on Frida Kahlo at home and abroad,as well as a clarification of the status and research value of the artist in the history of art development,and finally a description of the significance of the topic,research content and innovation of this paper.The main text is divided into three chapters.The first chapter,"The Roots of Frida Kahlo’s Artistic Thought," is divided into two sections:"Frida Kahlo’s Socio-Historical Background" and "Frida Kahlo’s Individual Life Experience."This chapter first focuses on the analysis of Frida Kahlo’s socio-historical background.This chapter first focuses on the analysis of the multiple cultural sources in Frida Kahlo’s artistic thought,clarifying the influence of Germanic culture,Aztec civilization and Mexican revolutionary art on Frida Kahlo’s artistic thought.Secondly,the individual life experiences of Frida Kahlo,including World War I and World War II,and major social points in the world,as well as the turning events and important figures in Frida Kahlo’s life at the personal level,are presented as supporting arguments,paving the way for the necessary information for the analysis and discussion of the deeper meaning of the work.Chapter 2,"Female Identity in a Patriarchal Society," focuses on Frida Kahlo’s cognitive transformation in the first half of her life and the factors that induce it.This chapter is divided into two sections,including "The Social Assimilation of Women and Nature" and "The Reconstruction of Female Identity.Frida Kahlo lived in a time when male aesthetics was dominant,and compared to the traditional art period,most female artists did not have a new concept of gender,so they were still in a period of passive attachment and agreement with male aesthetic consciousness;then came the era of the rise and rapid development of feminism,and female artists with a new era of female consciousness began to appear and emerge.Their conceptions and exploration of visual expression in their works have precisely reconstructed the identity of women in the patriarchal society.Thus,in a male-dominated society,women and nature began to form an alliance,completing the process of transformation from "homogeneity of origin" to "homogeneity of oppression".The third chapter,"Resonance with Ecofeminism," focuses on the changing consciousness of the times,class consciousness and gender consciousness in Frida Kahlo’s works.The three sections of this chapter are developed from three perspectives.Firstly,it explains the postmodernist temperament-the transcendence of the times-that Frida Kahlo exudes in the process of reconstructing women’s identity in a patriarchal society;secondly,it explains that Frida Kahlo focuses on the tragic situation of the lower class suffering from bourgeois oppression and reflects on and reworks this social reality in her works,showing in this process In this process,she shows the transcendence of class in her artistic thought;finally,she analyzes the transcendence of gender concepts embedded in Frida Kahlo’s creations;as a woman of color in the upper class,she understands the double dilemma that lower class women are in;the exploitation caused by racial discrimination and the oppression caused by sexism are doubly superimposed on the lower class women in Mexico,and the logocentric masculinity gives women of color The "innate(gender-racial)disadvantage" given to women of color by logocentrism is the source of Mexican women’s ultimate resistance,and Frida Kahlo considers and answers this social reality in her work,eventually forming a transcendent view of gender that crosses the boundaries of gender,race,and class.The last part of this paper summarizes all the points argued above,analyzes the relationship between gender,human and environment,and social groups in Frida Kahlo’s works,and summarizes how she expresses her overall concern for multiple oppressed groups through the medium of art.The gradual growth of self-awareness of female groups in a patriarchal society eventually leads to the formation of a macro-dimensional concept of gender and the construction of a society in which people live in harmony with nature,people with society,and people with people.After her difficult and legendary life,Frida Kahlo eventually develops a transcendent understanding of life that dissolves all boundaries between gender,class,race and environment.