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I like her work mainly because of the colors.
I appreciate F. Kahlo's creation because I like her courage in
area of content and artistic expression.
I have a neutral attitude towards F. Khalo's work. Despite the
fact that some of her work are more pleasing than others, I do
not consider her brave works repulsive or disgusting or
inappropriate, because I simply accept the fact that it is her
personal way of expressing her thoughts and feelings. Her work
attracted me by expressing her attitude towards herself, her
suffering, her life, through her works.
I don't like a creation of Frida K., because her paintings seemed
very stereotypical and monotonous and not very special.
I like a creation of Frida K. I like also the paintings that others
consider as disgusting and ugly, because they show also the dark
side of life. But life is not just about those nice things, it is also
about unpleasant things and experiences and we need to be able
to deal with them.
I do not like it because of the too sharp colors and the style of
painting itself. On the contrary, it is very sympathetic how she
cope with her life and fate. I mean mainly self-portraits which
are authentic and they are the expression of searching for her
own identity.
I like it mainly because of the self-portraits, which I still see as
an expression of self-interest, even though I know it is not so. I
like also the colors and the use of animal and plant motives. I
also perceive the pictures with a more negative value as nice
and lovely.
I have mixed feelings about it. Some paintings attracted me with
colors and I like mainly portraits and the pictures of animals. On
the contrary, paintings showing their infertility are very
disgusting to me.
I consider her as an interesting artist. I was most attracted to
her self-portraits; especially that she did not appear too
distorted, but realistically, as she really looked and perceived
herself. I also like the colors and folk motives.
Generally I dont like the creation of Frida Kahlo, because the
colors of her paintings are too aggressive for me.
In the view of the incidents in her life, I can say her paintings
are often authentic. Nevertheless, I regard it as frightening, not
regrettable. It is self-evident that the artist has coped with the
incidents, and therefore I think they seem horribly. Nobody
considers negative situations in "bright" shades. To me, these
works are repulsive - like a nightmare.
In the students‘ painting reflections of the Frida Kahlo‘s art
works we can see multiple levels of connection between the
student and the artist. Some of the students reacted only at the
form of the artworks (typical colors, repeating of the topics),
without deeper identification with the artist. Others reacted with
a slight connection with the artist, finding something interesting
in the author‘s personality. A few students found a deep
connection between their lives and artist‘s artworks.
The pictures of students‘ visual reflections (pictures 4 – 20,
author of all photos: Janka Satková) are organized from reactions
at form to reactions at content and from shallow to personal
level of intimacy and authenticity.
1. 2.
3.
Pictures 1, 2, 3. Frida Kahlos‘ art works.
1. Memory, the Heart, 1937.
2. The Broken Column, 1944.
3. Fulang-Chang and I, 1937.
Online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
4. 5.
Pictures 4, 5. The students‘ visual reflections at the Frida
Kahlos‘ art works:
The Eyebrows. Stereotype in Creation.
The reflections (pictures 4 and 5) react only at the form of the
Frida Kahlos‘ art works, without a visible connection between
the students and the artist, what is visible also at the written
comments on the other sides of the papers: „Eyebrows –
repeating“, „Blue self-portraits - strereotype in creation“.
These words show that the boys dont like the Frida Kahlos‘ art
works, or, at least, they are not interested in them. There is no
deeper connection, maybe because the authors are the boys, or
maybe they use to focus at form.
6. 7.
Pictures 6, 7. The students‘ visual reflections at the Frida
Kahlos‘ art works: Color Flood. Hunting of Colors.
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