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| Frida and Cesarean Operation 1932 |
Week 4: Frida Kahlo and Artistic Identity
The painting I chose is called Frida and the Cesarean Operation. The painting has a woman in the center with a small fetus in the womb. The woman appears to be lying on a bed. To the right of the woman, there is a picture of a baby with no face and above that image is the baby’s face. To the left of the woman is another small portrait of the woman. Above the portrait there are doctors circling a hospital bed. The painting appears to be unfinished with many blank spots and black scribble outlines.
This painting illustrates a sad moment in the Frida Kahlo’s life. She was going to carry the baby full term even after an attempt to abort the child failed. You can tell the painting is unfinished due to the scribbled black lines and open white areas.
This painting made me feel all the pain that Kahlo had gone through in this moment in her life. It brought back sadness in my life for friend who endured the loss of a child several years ago. She was awaiting the arrival of her third child. The pregnancy was going great. She felt contractions one evening, and she and her husband drove straight to the hospital. By the time she was admitted the contractions stopped. She was scheduled for a cesarean the next day. When the baby was born, the doctors found the umbilical cord wrapped around the babies neck. The contractions she felt were the baby struggling with the umbilical cord.
My friend thinks about that baby from time to time. Around July is when we feel the pain year after year. The baby would have been ten this past July. It makes me think about how fragile life truly is. One day you have life, and the next day your gone.
Work Cited
Brooks, Mike (Jan, 2001) Frida Kahlo Fans Retrieved from
http://www.fridakahlofans.com/c0092.html
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