Welcome Today: Like Water for Chocolate Mexican artist Frida Kahlo Comparison to female characters from Like Water for Chocolate
Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon on July 6, 1907, in her parents' house in Coyoacan, Mexico a suburb of Mexico City. Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress 1926
“Her finest recipes date from this period of suffering” (Esquivel 69). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYWKoMFjnbs
As you look at Frida Kahlo’s paintings, notice how she chooses to represent women. (she lived and created art during and after the Mexican Revolution). You will be choosing one of Frida Kahlo’s pictures to focus on for a comparison we will be doing in class today, so think about which one you might choose. How does Kahlo represent women in this particular picture? What colors, or symbols, or gestures, or facial expressions does she use to emphasize this woman? Jot down some notes.
Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, 1932
My Dress Hangs There, 1933
My Grandparents, My Parents and I (Family Tree), 1936
Frida and Diego
Portraits of Women by Frida Kahlo Portrait of My Sister Cristina 1928
Portrait of Eva Frederick 1931
Roots (Raices) 1943
Portrait of Dona Rosita Morillo 1944
The Two Fridas 1939
Self-Portrait with Necklace 1933
Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Leon Trotsky) 1937
Self-Portrait 1940
Self-Portrait with Necklace 1933
Self-Portrait 1940
Self-Portrait with Loose Hair 1947
The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Me, and Senor Xolotl 1949
Choose one of Frida Kahlo’s pictures to focus on. How does Kahlo represent women in this particular picture? What colors, or symbols, or gestures, or facial expressions… does she use to emphasize/illustrate this woman? Jot down some notes. Compare and contrast your chosen Kahlo picture with one of characters represented in Like Water for Chocolate. How does Kahlo show her women/woman differently than Esquivel does? How are the two women the same/different? How can you account for these similarities/differences? **2-page write-up based on one of Kahlo’s paintings due Monday!