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Today, “Alchemy” rests in the Guggenheim Museum of New York City. This is one of Pollock’s earliest poured paintings where he used sand, pebbles, broken wood sticks and fibers. He used his famous technique, also referred to as ‘drip painting’, for the first time. He would lay the painting on the flo...

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Frida Kahlo painted what she knew. Most of her works were reflections about her own life and what she was going on in her personal life. When Frida Kahlo went to New York with her husband in 1933, for there second visit, she began painting My Dress Hangs There. This painting portrays Frida's feeling...

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The sculpture represents a man sitting on a small seat decorated with chalchihuites or jade beads and conches, richly dressed with a paper fan on the back of his head and fine stone jewelry like earflaps, bracelets and a green stone necklace, bangles with turquoise and gold, and an anthropomorphous ...

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Introduction to Frida Kahlo and Surrealism

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Blankert was the first to point out that this picture by Jan Both must be the companion piece to the Landscape with a Ruined Temple and Card Players in Munich (fig. a).7 Not only are the dimensions almost the same but the compositions and the placement of the figures are each other’s mirror image. B...

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The position a little bend forward, the wrinkles that furrow his face and the semi toothless mouth that this human figure depicts, clearly indicate that it is the representation of an elder in an unmistakable Mexica style. It is dressed simply with a loincloth or máxtlatl tied up with a decorative k...

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This painting was commissioned by Don Jose Domingo Lavin. It was drawn as a miniature mural, maybe as a result of influence by her husband, the famous Diego Rivera, who was a muralist. In this painting, in the center is an abandoned baby which has a third eye in his forehead. The baby's face resembl...

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This painting is location in the Paul Ricard Foundation. Made as a homage to the 19th century painter from France, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, “Tuna Fishing” is considered to be one of Dali’s final remaining masterpieces. Dali has stated his intentions around this painting as a will to unify the e...

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Made as a present for her then boyfriend, Alejandro Gomez Arias, who also happened to be her student, this was the first time Kahlo had made a self-portrait. Alejandro had left her. After he received this portrait from her, he went back to her and they were re-united. Painted between the summer of 1...

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