Frida Kahlo: Surrealist, Folk Art Painter & Cultural Icon
Karlana Pedersen, artist, photographer, and founder of Karlana Pedersen Visual Art & Photography, specializes in custom contemporary art with a slight retro flair. Karlana creates her own style of hand-painted, multi-media abstract, portraits, and impressionistic artwork, incorporating bright colors and textural patterns to create her unique brand of stylized artwork available as originals and open edition prints. Karlana Pedersen's custom artwork has been a design favorite with interior designers and is featured in both homes and businesses alike.
For more information, visit Karlana Pedersen's artist gallery:
www.karlana.com or her custom services website: www.aodpro.com
Frida Kahlo: Surrealist, Folk Art Painter & Cultural Icon.
By Karlana Pedersen - Follow Me
Filled with pain and fueled by passion, Frida Kahlo only lived 47 years, but she left an indelible impression in her short time. July 6th is Frida Kahlo’s birthday. What better way to celebrate the memory of this remarkable artist then to examine and acknowledge the pain, struggle, and success of her life as a surreal, Mexican folk art painter, and now a cultural icon, who just happened to be a revolutionary feminist, before it was even a thing.
Over the years, in my past blogs, I have written about Frida Kahlo many times. I visited San Fransisco, where its art community has dedicated several tributes to Frida. I have created some original works of art in honor of Frida, so it goes without saying, she is one of my favorite female artists. She struggled with her health, came to grips with her sexuality, confronted discrimination, dealt with pain and the loss of her children in miscarriage, and suffered through a physical disability. Yet she did her best to remain true to her ideals. Although I can't entirely agree with many things she did in her life, it's hard to deny her indomitable spirit and determination to conquer adversity and sexism. It is the same spirit of determination that bubbles up to the surface in every work of art that she created during her short-lived time on earth. Her visual work was like a journal of her life. Personally inviting us all to take an emotional and raw journey of her life experiences into the dark and back into the light again. Kahlo’s artwork is a mixture of culture and color, pain and happiness, that leaves anyone who views it nothing less than a witness to her private experiences and open wounds meticulously added to a canvas for all to see. She was, in every sense, a true artist.
Below, I have included a couple of links to a new museum dedicated to Frida Kahlo, her work, and her life in Mexico, and you can now experience this exhibit online. Take this new virtual tour of her life as an artist behind the scenes. It is a nostalgic journey of the past, of how Frida spent her time as an artist, where she lived, where she sat to paint, even giving us a peek into how she created her style of art using little glass jars of various colored paints so neatly preserved and untouched. Often confined to her bed, art was her means of communication. This virtual tour gives insight into how Frida lived and what she thought about the world around her.
"What need do I have for feet, when I have wings to fly" - Frida Kahlo
Karlana Pedersen, artist, photographer, and founder of Karlana Pedersen Visual Art & Photography, specializes in custom contemporary art with a slight retro flair. Karlana creates her own style of hand-painted, multi-media abstract, portraits, and impressionistic artwork, incorporating bright colors and textural patterns to create her unique brand of stylized artwork available as originals and open edition prints. Karlana Pedersen's custom artwork has been a design favorite with interior designers and is featured in both homes and businesses alike.
For more information, visit Karlana Pedersen's artist gallery:
www.karlana.com or her custom services website: www.aodpro.com
