Lisa Marie Blair

Tag: Frida kahlo

  • Ephemeral

    Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”

    — Frida Kahlo

  • Frida Kahlo on What We Can Endure

    At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

    — Frida Kahlo

  • Self-Portrait Wearing a Velvet Dress // Frida Kahlo

    Self-portrait wearing a velvet dress
    Frida Kahlo, 1926 (via Google Arts & Culture)
  • Frida Kahlo, Sun and Life, 1947

    “The subject of fertility appears one more time in this work. As a rather strange still life, Frida depicts plants-flowers-seeds-vaginas in process of gestation: the flowers’ pistils are drops of semen impregnating the ovum inside. A fetus is crying, just as is the third eye of the sun. Once again, Frida has had to face the loss of a child.”

    (via Google Arts and Culture)

  • Frida Kahlo, Thinking About Death, 1943 (via kahlo.org)

    “In the painting she stares out unflinchingly against a backdrop of luxuriant foliage. In the centre of her forehead, just above the two dark bushy eyebrows, is a perfectly circular round hole, within which is a rural landscape dominated by a skull and crossbones.

    The face is neither frightened nor filled with despair; it is calm. She seems to say that if death and suffering can be accepted as a natural part of life then fulfilment is possible. It is one of her many self-portraits that relentlessly lay bare her pre-occupations with death and her own physical fragility.

    It demonstrates her fearlessness in confronting what lies at the centre of existence: death.

    By putting death in the place of the third eye, the chakra, she makes it the source of all wisdom.”