observations, inferences

                             Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick - Frida Kahlo



Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick - Frida Kahlo- 1954



Observations:    i notice that there are many aspects of nature, for example she is standing on like rough ground it looks like there's a stream or maybe a river running through it. theres a white dove that seems to be flying away from the world. you can kind of see the sun all the way in the back, and i think it's the moon, or maybe it's just a mushroom. there are crutches that look like they are falling. she is holding a book, and since she let go of the crutches, there are these hands kind of sort of reaching out to grab her. and Karl Marx seems to be choking uncle sam.

Inferences:    the dove represents peace. and it seems to be flying away from earth. as if she is trying to say that the peace is leaving earth and is going far away. also showing uncle sam as a vulture may show that she doesn't like the u.s. the feels strongly enough about that that she also has Karl Marx choking him. maybe uncle sam is a sickness and Karl Marx is going to cure it by killing it

Iterpretations:     i know that she was very sick when she painted this so maybe she's hoping that  will cure her of her sickness by letting the crutches fall off of her and showing her being able to stand alone and being ok. but on the contrary, those could be god's hands ready to take her to heaven or whatever. in showing that her crutches fall off, it can show her pain going with them. she is leaving it all behind and peace (the dove) is going to come to her never leave her side again.