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1 Welcome Today: Like Water for Chocolate Mexican artist Frida Kahlo
Comparison to female characters from Like Water for Chocolate

2 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

3 “Her finest recipes date from this period of suffering” (Esquivel 69).

4 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.

5 Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, 1932

6 My Dress Hangs There, 1933

7 My Grandparents, My Parents and I (Family Tree), 1936

8 Frida and Diego

9 Portraits of Women by Frida Kahlo Portrait of My Sister Cristina 1928

10 Portrait of Eva Frederick 1931

11 Roots (Raices) 1943

12 Portrait of Dona Rosita Morillo 1944

13 The Two Fridas 1939

14 Self-Portrait with Necklace 1933

15 Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Leon Trotsky) 1937

16 Self-Portrait 1940

17 Self-Portrait with Necklace 1933

18 Self-Portrait 1940

19 Self-Portrait with Loose Hair 1947

20 The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Me, and Senor Xolotl 1949

21 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!

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