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The reflections (pictures 6 and 7) do not show the connections
between the students and the artist, because they react only at the
colors of the artist‘s artworks, but they have quite attentive
artistic expression and they show by the harmonic compositions
that these female authors like the Frida Kahlos‘ art works.
8. 9.
Pictures 8, 9. The students‘ visual reflections at the Frida
Kahlos‘ art works: Mixed feelings. Untitled.
The reflections (pictures 8 and 9) have no visible connections
with the personalities of the students, but have one common part:
they both show vivid colors typical for Frida Kahlos‘ works, but
with a sign of familiarization of the dark side of her life and
works. According to the written and verbal explanations from
the female students, the symbols of difficult life and „disgusting
works“ are the „ugly crossings between colors“ in the first
picture, and the black drops and lines in the second picture.
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11.
Pictures 10, 11. The students‘ visual reflections at the Frida
Kahlos‘ art works: Harmony. Pleasant and Unpleasant.
Both paintings (pictures 10 and 11) were made by female
students with concern. They show artistic complexity and have a
connection with the students‘ personality. The first picture
shows flowers in a meadow, because „Frida often showed nature
in her pictures and I like to be in nature...“
The second picture expresses a students‘ worldview, based on
duality of everything: „An image reflects my neutral or even
mixed impression from the author‘s work. The more colorful,
supposedly more merry part (on the left) is leaning towards
linking the works of Frida Khalo with nature and with vivid
colors in the most of her self portraits. The right, darker part of
the image shows the more uncomfortable part of her work,
expressing her emotional attitudes that caused her accident. I
wanted to express the imaginative duality of her work. Just as a
coin has two sides, as well as good and bad exists, as well as
white and black contrasts, also Frida Khalo‘s work can be both
„pleasant“ and „unpleasant“.
We can see the student creatively included the title of the picture
into her explanation. The most long text of all in the class
reflects her interest in the artworks, but also indicates the
students‘ responsible attitude to her school tasks, moreover she
finished her picture during a break.
12. 13.
14.
Pictures 12, 13, 14. The students‘ visual reflections at the Frida
Kahlos‘ art works: Colorful Frida. Photo of a tattoo.
Down: Identity.
Both paintings (pictures 12 and 14) have the written comments.
The first student has a tattoo of the Frida Kahlo’s face (picture
13) and she feels a connection between her and the artist: „I like
her creation and I tried to express it by the topic of a self portrait
and by her typical colors. A self portrait is an image of my
tattoo, which I perceive as a connection between Frida and me“.
We can guess, that the female student perceives her life or life
itself as difficult. The second picture (picture 14) is „reaction to
searching for own identity, and reaction to inclusion into the
society“, as the female student wrote, so it seems she deals with
a problem of socialization this time.
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