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What the Water Gave Me (Lo que el agua me dio in Spanish) is an oil painting by Frida Kahlo that was completed in 1938. It is sometimes referred to as What I Saw in the Water. Frida Kahlo’s What the Water Gave Me has been called her biography. As the scholar Natascha Steed points out, "her paintings were all very honest and she never ...
The text on the picture reads, "Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is July, 1947. In Coyoacán, Mexico, the place where I was born." [3] [n 1] Kahlo was 40 years old at the time.
Two Nudes in a Forest is an oil painting by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo that was completed in 1939. It is also referred to as The Earth , Two Nudes in the Wood , or My Nurse and I . [ 1 ] The painting was given to a close woman companion of Kahlo's, [ 2 ] who some believe to be actress Dolores del Río .
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The new documentary film "FRIDA" by filmmaker Carla Gutiérrez uses the late Mexican artistic icon Frida Kahlo's illustrated diary and intimate correspondence to tell her story in her own words ...
Interest in the paintings began with Diego Rivera, who considered them to be an important testimony to Mexican history and culture. He and Frida Kahlo became the first collectors. By the end of the 20th century, they became valuable collectors' items and can now be found in museums and private collections in various parts of the world. [1] [2]
Frida Kahlo used her own experiences to inform her art. In that spirit, Kahlo’s personal writings are used to help tell the story of her life in a new documentary, “Frida.” Filmmaker Carla ...
Art historian Chelsey Miller says about the details of The Love Embrace, "In paintings such as The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, I and Señor Xolotl it is clear that Frida felt a deep connection to the Earth and to the feminine energies [of the Earth]". [1] This statement is reflected in Kahlo's 1943 painting Roots ...