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Frida kahlo portraits5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Frida’s paintings reflect her personal experiences and life. These are the things that cause us to call her an introverted person psychoanalytically, who was seeking for her own inner status and mentalities and trying to portray her desire, wishes, frustrations in her self-portraits. Though Kahlo returned to her normal life after several months, the mental and bodily effects were so deep. ![]() Her survival with multiple fracture of the pelvis, ribs, vertebrae of the neck and eleven crush fracture in the right leg that she sustained, seemed a miracle. In 1925, when she was 18, a horrific bus crash changed her life. The mutilation tormented her for the rest of her life. This illness crippled her and one of her foot remained shorter than the other. At 6, she was afflicted with polio and remained hospitalized for almost a year. His father was a German- Jewish painter and photographer with a Romanian origin. Life Chronicle and Events Affecting Kahlo’s Life Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in a small town called Koyoakan surrounding Mexico. In the end, based on the psychoanalytical fundamental concepts, we try to shed light on the new aspects of Kahlo’s self –portraits. For this purpose, we deal with the category of fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis employed in line with the aesthetical studies. We then, examine and investigate the Frida Kahlo’s works based on the same philosophy and the psychoanalytical theory. Freud distinguished his philosophy from science meticulously. To us what are important are the connotative and the aesthetical significance of the Freudian concepts not the appropriate interpretation of them. Freud with this theory placed himself under the philosophical criteria within the great tradition of the philosophy”. Now it should be seen whether taking such an approach with regards to psychoanalysis is possible? To answer to this question, one needs to refer to the Herbert Markoz’s theories in the book “Eros and Civilization” as he regard Freud:“ Freud developed a theory about human and the psychological science as such. So, we are concerned with the theoretic agenda exclusively and we don’t enter in a technical field into which Psychoanalysis has been converted. An important issue in psychoanalysis critique in general and in this paper is that, we want to contribute to the philosophy of psychoanalysis –not to psychoanalysis itself. In this way, we can discover the peculiar aesthetics of every artist. The psychoanalytical critique states, each area and course in which an artist lives in hasits own characteristics and, this forces us to go to the artist’s individual and social events to have an appropriate understanding (not necessarily a complete one) of the works of him. Hence, the art of different geographic areas are clearly some distance apart. This is the principle which distinguishes artist’s works from the dynamics of art during history. When a work of art is created by an artist, it reflects all his mentalities and morale. But the principle that most critics and theorists believe in, is that art is meaningless in its pure abstraction. When going to the art theory, we encounter with the risk of interpretation and hermeneutics, which could keep us away from the art work itself. Introduction The relationship between truth and beauty within all art contexts has always been complicatedly controversial. ![]()
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