Bona Kim
Prof. Kyle Brebner
IERW(03)
11 November 2015
Between Despair and Hope - Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo was born with despair but sublimated the pain into art. Considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Frida Kahlo had suffered many privations through life. She had several serious injuries and they influenced not only to her life, but also to her world of art. Most of her paintings are self-portraits because she tried to observe and express the hurt inner side by paints. Even if Kahlo suffered she did not only despondent of her destiny but also had strong will to live. The Wounded Deer (1946) is one of Kahlo’s works that shows Kahlo’s inner side clearly. The paint expressed her severe pain through various descriptions. But inside there she included symbols of hope and will thus give us positive messages. The reason that the paint is impressive is it gives us both of sympathy of pain and consolation.
The Wounded Deer (1946)
The Wounded Deer was created when Kahlo had intense deterioration of her health. There is a young deer with the head of Kahlo. The deer seems to mean herself. The deer is alone at the forest fatally wounded by arrows. The background is dead trees and broken branches. Far away is storm and thunder over the sea. All of conditions seem hopeless and pessimistic. Kahlo tried to describe conditions surrounded her by that paint. In 1946 Kahlo had on operation on her spine. She hoped her spine gets better with the surgery but it was unsuccessful. Kahlo suffered both the physical pain and emotional depression. Her suffered heart and fear revealed through that deer. Arrows that penetrated deer’s body and made it bleeding means Kahlo’s intense pain. She was certainly frightened and desperate as the deer.
Although the painting looks like of described sadness, there seem some hopeful and willed symbolic representations that looks like try to show us there still exists hope. First of all, Kahlo’s eyes are still sharp sighted even though she is bleeding. It seems like she tells she is terribly suffering but she will never give up her live and endure all hardships. Second thing is storm and thunder over the blue sea. It looks like another trouble is coming but at the same time can mean they brings some big positive change that she did not noticed yet.
The reason ‘The Wounded Deer’ appealing is it makes us sympathize about the sadness but also makes feel hope inside that. Because of her physical and emotional suffering, Kahlo used to observe her own inner side mentality by mirror and express it through the paints. ‘The Wounded Deer’ appears just describe her pain and sadness but look in detail soon can find her strong will and hope. It teaches what is the real suffer means to people who are accustomed to feel like painful. Most people tend to give up everything when they are faced to insuperable problem. But in this paint, even though all of the hardships surrounded her, the deer keeps a stiff upper lip. Even she seems to can overcome conditions any minute. We can consoled by this paint as comparing our sadness with Kahlo’s. Are you oppressed with sadness? Are you under suffering now? See that deer and think you could overcome all the hard conditions surround you. It will surely heal and encourage you.
Photo : ‘The
Wounded Deer’ from Google
Frida Kahlo :
from Naver Encyclopedia
You made a lot of good improvements and corrections. You did a much better job of previewing the key points, but try to make your thesis statement one sentence. Some stronger topic sentences with key words from the thesis statement would also help. The conclusion is much stronger and has a nice connection to the readers. Remember the title of the painting should be in italics.
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