lesson plan on the boundaries on Freda Kahlo, looking at her political, cultural, physical, and personal boundaries in her life and in her art work

1. BOUNDARIES
Final Major Project

2. AIMS OF THE SESSION
You will understand your own boundaries.
You will understand the boundaries of Freda Kahlo.
You will create an image in the style of Freda Kahlo,
reflecting your own boundaries.

3. WHAT ARE YOUR BOUNDARIES?
What are your boundaries?
Think about your cultural boundaries, your physical
boundaries and your personal boundaries.
Use colours to indicate which boundary it is.
Split up into 2 groups

4. FREDA KAHLO
Artist Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in
Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. Considered
one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Frida Kahlo
began painting after she was severely injured
in a bus accident. Kahlo later became
politically active and married fellow
communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. She
exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico
before her death in 1954.
http://www.biography.com/people/frida-kahlo-9359496

5. PHYSICAL BOUNDARIES
 Around the age of 6, she contracted polio, which caused
her to be bedridden for nine months. Her father
encouraged her to play soccer, go swimming, to help aid
in her recovery.
 While she did recover from the illness, she limped when
she walked because the disease had damaged her right
leg and foot.
 When she was 18 she had a bus accident where she was
impaled by a hand rail through her hip. She suffered
several serious injuries as a result, including fractures in
her spine and pelvis. This caused her pain and medical
problems for the rest of her life.
The broken Colum (1944)

6. CULTURAL BOUNDARIES
 She mainly painted self portraits, which were inspired
by Mexican popular culture and had mixed elements
from pre-Columbian and Catholic mythology. Her
work also belonged to the post-revolutionary
Mexicanidad movement.
 Her work also employed a naïve folk art style to
explore questions of identity, post colonialism,
gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
 Her work is celebrated internationally as emblematic
of Mexican national and indigenous traditions
Love Embrace (1949)

7. PERSONAL BOUNDARIES
 Her paintings often had strong autobiographical
elements and mixed realism with fantasy.
 Her painting where all personal including a
painting from her second miscarriage and images
of her husband in her paintings.
 Kahlo’s relationship with her husband was volatile
due to both having extramarital affairs Diego had
an affair with Kahlo’s sister Christina.
 Kahlo was mainly known as Rivera's wife until the
late 1970s, when her work was re-discovered by art
historians and political activists.
Diego and I (1949)

8. POLITICAL BOUNDARIES
 Kahlo was interested in politics and in 1927 joined
the Mexican Communist Part, this is where she met
her husband Diego Rivera.
 By the 1990s, she had become not only a
recognized figure in art history, but also regarded as
an icon for Chicanos, Feminists, and the LGBTQ
movement.
 feminists celebrate her work for what is seen as its
uncompromising depiction of the female experience
and form.
 During her last years, Frida painted mostly still life
but would politicize them by adding a flag, a peace
dove, or inscriptions. Marxism will give health to the sick
(1954)

9. FREDA KAHLO - BOUNDARIES
Take a look at the handout and quotes from Freda
Kahlo
After looking at the handouts on Freda Kahlo and
the previous slides, make a spider diagram listing
the boundaries relating to her as individual and in
her paintings.
https://uk.pinterest.com/emmalrigby71/freda-kahlo/?eq=freda&etslf=6329

10. THINKING ABOUT YOUR BOUNDARIES
I would like you to create a self portrait of your self.
In the self portrait I would like you to add imagery
reflecting your own boundaries.
Use the spider diagram you created at the start to help
you.

11. DO NOT FORGET TO
Evaluate your work and the artists work – point,
evidence, explain, evaluate, analyse.
Remember the formal elements.