Self-portrait painted by Frida Kahlo
"In 1944 when Frida painted this self-portrait, her health had
deteriorated to the point where she had to wear a steel corset for five
months. She described it as a “punishment”. The straps of the corset
seem to be all that is holding the artist’s broken body together and
upright. An Ionic column, broken in several pieces, symbolizes her
damaged spine. The yawning cleft in her body is repeated in the furrows
of the bleak fissured landscape. An even more powerful symbol of her
pain are the nails piercing her face and body. The nails represent the
physical pain she has endured since her accident. The larger nail
piercing her heart represents the emotional pain caused by Diego.
Frida originally painted herself completely nude but then later decided that her total nudity distracted from the central theme and focus of the painting."
Frida originally painted herself completely nude but then later decided that her total nudity distracted from the central theme and focus of the painting."
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