me and my parrots frida kahlo

me and my parrots frida kahloPainted around 1941, this painting belongs to a series of self portraits that Frida Kahlo made after the death of her father and in the midst of increasing physical pain. It shows a calmer, more domestic side of her life, surrounded by familiar animals. Parrots were among the many exotic animals she kept in her house in Coyoacn, and their presence in her works symbolises nature, freedom and attachment. Frida stands erect, wearing a white huipil, her

a bygone era

non-naturalistic colors—greens

master of light in the Dutch Baroque movement

It highlights the convergence of art and sport by juxtaposing geometric shapes and bright colours in accordance with the precepts of simultaneism

The work reminds us of Peonies and Canary

stripped of any narrative context

The subject of workers reflects his interest in industrialisation and the place of the body in a mechanical environment

He composed an ode to nostalgia

" influencing Lyrical Abstraction and foreshadowing the visual language of Pop Art

The painting shows Matisse in his studio

with delicate shadows and patches of sunlight filtering through the leaves of the trees

a major figure of German Romanticism