Dynamics of Blood in Frida Kahlo’s Creation

Abstract

Frida Kahlo is one of the first feminine blazes on the masculine stage of painting. Until the beginning of the 20th century, female artists were associated with watercolors, thus Kahlo was a pioneer of oil painting. Moreover, her personalized style gathers elements in a surprising combination that wasn’t experienced by art before. One of these elements is blood and its attributes – national, familial, Christian, uterine, malign, sacrificial, exposed, and so on, in a vibrant relation with the idea of staginess and mask. An invitation to the never-ending carnival, Frida Kahlo’s work doesn’t conceive inner transformation, but only interchangeable settings and props. From this point of view, her art materializes the dynamics of death.