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Frida Kahlo, Thinking of Death (1943)
“Thinking of Death, 1943, deals explicitly with Kahlo’s preoccupation with mortality and the fragility of her body - the legacy of polio in childhood and a near-fatal bus accident. She drew on many different types of funerary imagery in her paintings, including Aztec art and Mexican folk traditions. Later, she extended her range of sources to include Eastern religions. In this work, the third eye chakra in the centre of the forehead, which denotes wisdom or spiritual truth according to Indian Yogic beliefs, has been supplanted with a death’s head.” - Jane Burton, Tate Modern Art Gallery
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billyjane:
In Medusa [1924] an image of the feminine appears in which all erotic qualities are utterly eliminated. The white phantomesque face, like a mask, seems more dead than alive. Only the undulating serpents in her hair betray signs of vitality. More disturbing still are the two blackened eyes like vertical slits in the mask. Given the artist’s obsession with a woman’s sex, it is not too much to imagine that he has rendered her lids vertically to evoke the idea of vaginal eyes - that this woman sees the world through her sex - a demented and tormented idea, without doubt.
Nikolai Kalmakoff
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In Medusa [1924] an image of the feminine appears in which all erotic qualities are utterly eliminated. The white phantomesque face, like a mask, seems more dead than alive. Only the undulating serpents in her hair betray signs of vitality. More disturbing still are the two blackened eyes like vertical slits in the mask. Given the artist’s obsession with a woman’s sex, it is not too much to imagine that he has rendered her lids vertically to evoke the idea of vaginal eyes - that this woman sees the world through her sex - a demented and tormented idea, without doubt.
Nikolai Kalmakoff
via visionaryrevue
