| In the history of20th century art and women in social activities, theMexican artist, Frida Cahlo, with her special life experiences and uniquepainting works, has become one of unavoidable and important figures. However,behind the legend, she was deliberately misunderstood by people with variousneeds.In the eyes of spectators, Cahlo ’s works is full of personal, subconsciousand magic characteristics, which are in accordance with European andAmerican cultural understanding of surrealism, magic realism and imagination.But based on the background of observation in Western art history, it wasignored that the fact that Frida had been suffered from the physical and mentalpain throughout her life, and the democratic revolution and magnificentlyturbulent historical background of Mexico and even Latin America when shewas in. When facing the revolution, steadfastness of affectional faith, and thefragments of reality, what Frida had depicted by means of painting was thereflection of her struggling rectification of the "broken" experience, the idealself and the ideal hope, which she was tormented by the dilemma and the painbecause of not gaining them. Through painting, she indulged herself in thetraditional resurrection of Mexican culture. You can’t peep out the close andsubtle association between the artist herself and her works until the methods ofapproaching the soul of the artist and return of the real historical backgroundare employed when you want to find out the where the soul of Frida’s artisticcreation is. |