buddhabrot:Moses, Frida Kahlo, 1945This masterpiece was commissioned by Don José Domingo Lavin. Kahl
buddhabrot:Moses, Frida Kahlo, 1945This masterpiece was commissioned by Don José Domingo Lavin. Kahlo had painted a portrait of Lavin’s wife in 1942. Lavin asked Frida to read the Sigmund Freud book “Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion” and then paint her interpretation of what she had read. This painting was done in the style of a miniature mural…perhaps to copy the works of her famous husband, muralist Diego Rivera. The central figure of the abandoned baby Moses closely resembles Diego, and wears, like Diego in other paintings, the third eye of wisdom on his forehead. The birth is beneath a life giving sun flanked by gods, heroes, common humanity, and the all-embracing hands of death. In the foreground a conch spurting fluid into a concave shell is, Frida said, a symbol of love. Fresh, leafy branches sprouting from dead tree trunks refer to the life/death cycle that appears in many of Frida’s paintings. -- source link
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