Summary: By the 1940's Frida's career arose, the recognition of her art brought patrons, commissions, a teaching job, conferences, fellowship, participation in cultural organizations, conferences, art projects, and an invitation to write for periodicals. A sign of her growing reputation was her 1942 selection of drawings. These paintings demonstrated the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, which is an organization under an education. In 1944, she was invited by the Ministry Education to be part of a popular mural painting. Frida was chosen as one of six artists to receive a government fellowship in 1946. Then her greatest honor came in September of the next year, at the National Exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts. Frida won five thousand pesos for each of four paintings.
Even though in the 1940's Frida had the best time with her career, earning a living was not easy. In 1947, Frida sold art for four thousand pesos, showing she was in need of money. For some reason, it seemed like portraits of other people were almost less vibrant and original than her subject paintings and self-portraits. It was inferred that perhaps Frida did not feel free to project all her fantasies into the portraits of other people, and it didn't make her feel her own reality in the drawing. By the time Frida began to rise Diego had been an ancient myth, while Frida was knew to mythic stature. Years after Diego and Frida died, Friends remembered them as sacred monsters. They had divorced and re-married. After, they re-married, the bond between them deepened. However, they both still had love affairs, his where open, and hers were with men. Frida's portraits recorded the battles of her marriage.
Quote:"No one is more than a functioning or part of the total function..." (Herrera 328).
The above quote is from Frida's diary. Frida thinks that life always sprouts from the trunk of age. In her drawings she tries to express her views of the universe. She expresses it with harmony and color, meaning that everything moves according to one law which is life. Therefore, where she writes no one is more than a functioning or part of the total function; she means all is all and one. For example, anguish and pain, pleasure and death are all processes to exist. She says all humans are sometimes described by one adjective but in reality we are hate, love, mother, child, plant, earth, lightning, etc. from the minute we are born.
Reaction: When I first read the quote I was confused. I thought it meant that humans are not complete that only part of us fully functions, but then as I read more, I realized Frida meant everything about us makes us from the minute we are brought to life including the environment itself. Also, her beliefs of life and the universe are portrayed in her drawing. For example, her drawing of Doña Rosita has darkness in between leaves to show night time, to mean end of life. Other signals of old age and death are brown leaves, gray leafless sticks. She shows death as part of the cycle of life by making the sticks form props of a tangle of live green flower plants. Then Doña Rosita herself is prickly looking to show her wisdom and long life.
Does it take artists a long time to decide how their drawing will symbolize something?
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