Sunday, April 5, 2009
8:14 PM
Title: Still Life, Roses
Year produced: 1925
Size: 41.2 x 30cm, 16 1/4 x 12
What it is about: This painting may look like an ordinary Still Life painting but it reflects the turmoil in her relationship with her boyfriend Alejandro Gómez Arias. It seems that while Alejandro was courting Frida, he, at the same time, was pursuing another young lady with which he was having sexual encounters. Frida's attempts to win him solely for herself failed and she always thought of herself as "the other women" in the three-way relationship. In this painting, the two fully opened roses in the vase symbolize Alejandro and his other love interest. The wilting rejected rose on the table is Frida.
Name : Dayana Afiqah, 2A, 4
