In the societies that have been established for thousands of years, the demands attached to women by education, religion, and customs drive them to become objects, to become secondary. As Beauvoir said in "The Second Sex": "One is not born a woman, but becomes a woman." The situation and status of traditional women are often shaped by a male-centered society.
However, the rapid formation and development of female-conscious creation has become an important breakthrough in contemporary art in the world today. With the progress of the times and the influx of Western feminism, the self-awareness of female artists has been continuously improved. In painting creation, female artists can observe and record women's living conditions and inner emotional world through their own women's perspective, convey delicate and unique emotions, and exert genius-like artistic inspiration. Obviously, female art and its creators should be an indispensable part of art. At the same time, female artists can also create works that are different from male perspectives, and gradually improve their independent space.
As can be seen from the movie "Frida", the expression of female consciousness in works of art is not achieved overnight, but gradually matures with the growth of the artist. They need to integrate self-awareness into the paintings, and the unique feminine charm contained in them makes the pictures full of vitality. The early Frida was undoubtedly a genius. She completed her work independently without being taught, and was praised by Diego, the famous painter of the time. At this time, her paintings only adopted the style of realism, revealing the beauty of traditional Mexican art. But when Frida gradually suffered a series of physical and psychological damage, his paintings added new meaning. Especially after she saw her own sister incest with her lover Diego, Frida created a painting of a husband killing his wife based on the news at the time. We can fully appreciate her inner strength and unyielding from the style of realism and symbolism. She solemnly expresses the real, realistic and painful qualities of women in her works, which is an art form that has never existed in history. and creative perspective. As a woman, she looks directly at the tragedies that are happening to women in society and life around her with an almost grim emotion; and expresses it bravely.
It is precisely because of Frida's rebelliousness that her influence on the world is created. And those painful paintings have indeed awakened more numb people. Frida finds her own perspective in her paintings to explore herself, to explore women themselves. At the end of the movie, did Frida succeed in exploring? I'm not so sure either. Frida wrote a long letter to Diego when he had a solo exhibition in Paris, realizing that he loved her husband more than herself, or that the two would eventually get back together. At this point, I seem/probably/should not agree with what she did in the end, because she ended up accepting such an unfaithful man... It's hard to understand.
Perhaps women themselves still need to go through a long period of struggle to switch from the status of the "other" to the "self". But overall, she is a person to admire!
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