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I am continuing with Birthday Bastion blogging this week. Today's choice of prompt included 4 artistic images. One of them was a beautiful painting by Frida Kahlo which I chose to cover. I first heard of Frida Kahlo from taking a Spanish Language course in College. A requirement of my Bachelor's degree in English literature was that I needed to complete 2 years of a foreign language. I wound up choosing Spanish which worked out well up until the final semester I needed where my ability to keep up with the expanding vocabulary that the language required caught up to me and I wasn't able memorize what I needed quickly enough. I was able to pass the exams I needed to but I did cut pretty close. Part of what helped me through the course were a few friends in the class. I remember them organizing a study group to help prepare for the exams. They were pretty fun. I remember one of them organizing a "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" type of game to help study some of the trickier vocabulary words. One of the final Spanish projects I had to do was a group skit dedicated to a famous Spanish figure. My partner on the project who luckily had some good marks in the class recommended Frida Kahlo as the subject of our skit. Sadly our skit didn't really do Frida justice. We leaned more on the comedy side when we probably should have focused more on educational content. Frida Kahlo is a Mexican Artist who created some really powerful paintings. The image shared above is my favorite work of hers. It is probably her most recognizable work It is a self portrait depicting two sides of her personality. One version of her is dressed in traditional white dress while the the second seems to be wearing a more traditional Mexican outfit. Their hearts are linked together. Frida created this painting shortly after going through a divorce so there was a lot of pain in her life at the time. It seems to carry through in the picture as one of her counterparts in the picture is shown bleeding. As a viewer I sympathize with the with internal struggle in the picture. I feel that a lot of people can relate to having different sides of themselves that are connected with one another. They can also relate to the two sides in the midst of personal struggle. It is very thought provoking and deep. ---------------- Word Count 430 words Written for: "Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2025"  You can read more about the Two Fridas portrait here: https://www.fridakahlo.org/the-two-fridas.jsp |
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