Frida Kahlo, The Wounded Deer
Frida Kahlo has used the dark colours: green, brown and dark blue. I think she used these colours because you see that a deer is shot by bows and that is not so happy, so the dark colours make a kind of sad story. She organized it well, it gives the effects that she wanted to, I think. They create a kind of sad feeling. She chose this colours because she had an operation and she always thought the operation would free her from all the pain she had, but it failed and in this painting she expresses the feelings towards the operation.
The trees are straight shapes, her head is round and the bows that are in the body of the deer are sharp, because all the bows are of course sharp. The shapes are realistic, if you look at the things that it needs to look like.
You can see that the deer is wounded, just like Frida Kahlo was wounded when she had the accident with the bus. She was living when she had that accident and the deer is also living. I think the marks are that you can live while you’re having an accident.
The painting is not really realistic. The things in the painting, like trees, bows, deer, her own face, are realistic but everything put together isn’t realistic.
I can see a soft texture, a rough texture (from the tree) and I think that the leaves are also a little bit soft.
22.4 x 30 cm, I don’t know why it is this size. I don’t think it would change the meaning if it was bigger.
There is a sense of depth, you can clear see that there’s a depth, because the trees become smaller and you can see the ground of the wood behind the deer. I don’t think that artists want us to realize that the painting is only paint on flat canvas, I think they want us to empathize in the painting.
The work is painted with oil on masonite. That is a traditional material. I don’t think that my response would change if it was made with another material.
The artist, Frida Kahlo, has made it by yourself. But I can’t find anymore of the process.
I think that it is well organised, but it is not realistic how it is put together.
It is about a wounded deer, just like she was when she had the bus accident. Also in her back, just like the deer has. The deer is shot by 9 bows and in stead of a normal face of a deer, there’s a face of Frida.
I think she wanted to tell us that you can be alive after an attack but that you have pain. She painted this after her accident, and she wanted to let us see what she was feeling at the moment of the accident.
Frida calls it "the wounded deer" and that is just the way I see it, it is a wounded deer with bows all over him and that is what it is about. The title of the painting doesn’t change the way I see it.
The theme of the work is the wounded deer, a attack. The deer is attacked by someone and nobody does something while he is still alive.
I think it is a landscape, because you can see a little bit of a landscape, the forest. And it is far from a still life, so landscape is the only solution.
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