The Dream (The Bed)
By: Frida Kahlo
This drawing by Frida is just one of the 200 hundred
drawings she is famous for. She often drew self-portraits reflecting the
struggles she faced throughout her lifetime. I think her art was a way of
expressing what she felt, her fears, her insecurities and her doubts. The
reason I chose her art is because I admire the strength she must have had
because at the time when women were underestimated and for her to display her
vulnerabilities as a women and open herself and life to such criticisms must
not have been easy. I chose specifically this picture because she is depicting
her thoughts about mortality. The skeleton is Frida’s skeleton and it is
wrapped in bombs and wires, her bed seems to be floating depicting a dream. In
the past and to this day, death is a topic people fear to talk about and
science has worked so hard to prolong human’s life. We humans are now living
longer than ever but the fear of death still exists. This might have been a
fear Frida was experiencing, she feared death and feared the time and hour of
when death would strike her. I think this is an image almost everyone can
relate to and strikes you into meditation of your life.
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