Birth and Death

Frida Kahlo, A Few Small Nips, 1935, Oil on metal
(http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kahlo.html)

This picture was drawn based on newspaper accounts of a brutal murder, related to her feelings of being 'murdered by life'.

Rivera: 'the paintings Kahlo made in 1932 were "much better than those she executed before losing her baby"'.

I was never so emotionly driven by an exhibition -- which without any modern/postmodern installations, videos. Only pictures.

Frida Kahlo.

Rivera was right, Frida Kahlo is 'the only artist in the history of art who tore open her chest and heart to reveal the biological truth of her feelings.'

Only at the moment you stare at her pictures. People around you are still walking around, but you have already forgotten the time and space you ware in. You are in the picture, you are emerged attracted addicted. At the moment it gazes, it becomes all the world.

Especially when Kahlo faces Death -- of herself and the unborn baby as well, these picutre strikes. Her love is strong, too.

She made me think what is death.
She made me re-think what is love.
She made me review who i am.


Frida Kahlo @ Tate Modern