portraits

Kiki Smith

Frida Kahlo
Frida

These are very literal portraits, and i enoy that aspect of these paintings. They convey stong, straight forward messeges. Frida creates a serealist scene by literally placing the different people, events, locations and materials of her life on her body. Taking these things out of context of a landscape or a crowd and placing them along side her body or her face. She paints her husband Diego on her forhead, a literal statment of his precenece in her thoughts and her constant mental awakness of her love for him. This statements, are simple and beautiful, she paints collages of the influences of her life... creating masterpieces.

Kiki Smith has also portrayed herself in a very literal. Smith puts herself directly on the canvas, stripping her natural skin from her body and stretching it across the stretchers. Ths is a beautiful and natural portrait.

I enjoyed these artists styles, for their simplicity and strong opinions. Not questioning their ideas and being direct in conveying their thoughts.