I have decided to use Frieda Kahlo as my artist. She was a Mexican artist who was born in 1907. She had a very personal and dark artistic style. In 1939 she produced a painting that depicted the suicide of a well known American socialite at the time.
The painting was for a friend of the socialite but was a lot more graphic than she had asked for. It detailed every step of the socialite's suicide.
This is where I got my information from
http://www.cheapoilpainting.com/blogs/frida-kahlo/3967172-kahlo-painting-study-suicide-of-dorothy-hale-1939
I think the story of this painting fits in well with my theme. I can also sympathise with the friend of the socialite, receiving a painting detailing every step of a loved ones suicide must of been like a sledgehammer to the guts.
It's not only the painting that fits with my theme however, Kahlo herself had a very hard life and often thought of suicide. One of these times was while she was producing this painting.
I find her life and the troubles she went though fascinating. She was left paralysed after a car accident and had an abusive husband, these are just the tip of the iceberg that was her problems yet she produced 200 paintings, drawings and sketches throughout her lifetime. A lot of these were self portraits because, as she said, "I am often so alone....Because I am the subject I know best."
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