Sunday in the Art Room

 Hi Everyone!

Before I get to the art I wanted to show you a gift I received from Louise over at Standing into Danger After seeing one of her posts with Milkweed plants, I told her I have been trying to get plants or seeds with no luck. Well she went out and harvested seeds for me. This is the beautiful card she sent with it and I placed some of the seeds down on the card. Thank you Louise.

We will see how they grow next year.

Now for some art.

Below is taken from the Guardian. 

On my last FFO I mentioned that one of Frida Kahol's art pieces was being sold.

That it would break a record of not only female artists but Latina artists. Well, it did. The painting sold for $54.7 million. 

Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at age 18. She  underwent a series of painful surgeries on her damaged spine and pelvis, 

and then wore casts until her 

 death in 1954 at age 47.

She started to paint while bedridden, 

During the years Kahlo was confined to her bed, she came to view it as a bridge between worlds as she explored her mortality.

The painting is the star of a sale of more than 100 surrealist works by artists including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning.

Kahlo resisted being labeled a surrealist, a style of art that’s dreamlike and centers on a fascination with the unconscious mind.

“I never painted dreams,” she once said. “I painted my own reality.”

In its catalog note, Sotheby’s said the painting “offers a spectral meditation on the porous boundary between sleep and death.”

“The suspended skeleton is often interpreted as a visualization of her anxiety about dying in her sleep, a fear all too plausible for an artist whose daily existence was shaped by chronic pain and past trauma,” the catalog notes.

I, like so many other artists have been connected to Frida in some strange way. My Nan and Mom introduced me to her art when I was young. You know her art feeds my inner weirdness. 

Some of my other favorites are, of course, 

 Dorothea Tanning, and Leonora Carrington 

Is there a "surrealist" artist that you like, that you connect with?

Let me know in the comments

 

Just a note, FFO self portrait is this Friday. It is NOT mandatory. Just a fun addition to FFO.

Have a great Sunday 

Nicole