Question

describe 3 examples of the influence of Freudian thought on modern art: Kahlo, "The Broken Column," Kafka, identify the medium, describe the content, and discuss in detail the form.

Answer 1

Frida kahlo was born in a Mexico-city suburb to a Hubgarian-Jewesh father and a Mexican mestizo mother. Her works primarily emerge from and reflect her extremely traumatic life and her Mexican heritage. Since she has always aspired to become a doctor, she entered Medical school at the age of 15. However, 3 years later, a bus accident left her semi-invalid, forcing her out of medical school. She had to undergo more than 30 operations post her traumatic, life changing incident, compelling her to retire into a life of constant pain and hardship.

To help alleviate her from the mental scars, Kahlo began to draw, using bright colours that we're typical of the Mexican folkloric style. She married Mexico's most famous artist, Diego Rivera and fell in love , and despite Rivera being 20 years older to her and already married twice, they married in 1929.

The heavy influence of Mexican culture on Frida Kahlo's works cannot be more evident that it already is. Bright colours, dramatic symbolism, an unapolegetic rendering of harrowing content and the native Mexican costume with particular emphasis oh her hair and make up mark Kahlo's works.

A picture such as The Broken Column seems to give us her pain as almost no other; her body stuck with nails, the pale tears on her cheeks, the expression of terrible ccourage. But we can see what a complicated language is being brought into being to transmit the emotion; the pain is expressed through a combination of realism, wiwith the depiction of the steel corset that she had to wear, and surrealism, as her body is opened up to reveal a crumbling column instead of pain.

Kafka was in fact a follower of Freudian psychology. In his letter to his father which is considered as his autobiograpy, one can recognize despiction of some Freudian theories such as Oedipus complex. A writer wrote in this context that Kafka represented in fictional terms the image of man as concieved by Freud. As a whole, in The Metamorphosis like most of his words, Kafka depicts his major idea that there is only one illness in man and it is his own existance and the only cure for it is death. So, we see in The Metamorphosis, after his terrible metamorphosis, Gregor wis his death.