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What is Art?: An evaluation of

Frida Kahlos works

Prepared by:

Daniel Philip V. Barnachea


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What is Art?

Who is Frida Kahlo?

Why do we need to evaluate herwork/s?

Does art have some relevance to ourlives?

How does art affect our everydaylives?


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Frida Kahlo: Biography

Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo yConyocoan

Born on July 6, 1907, Conyocoan,

Mexico City, MexicoMarried with Diego Rivera in 1929

Painted Henry Ford Hospital(1932),

The Suicide of Dorothy Hale(1939),The Two Fridas(1939), The BrokenColumn(1944)


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What is Art?

Physiological-evolutionary definition

an activity arising even in the animalkingdom, springing from sexual desire

and the propensity to play withpleasurable excitementof the nervoussystem

Experimental definition external manifestation(lines,

movements, etc.) of emotions

Art as beauty(Plotinus, etc.)


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So what is art then?

Art is not a means to pleasure and to

consider it as one of the conditions ofhuman life (Tolstoy 1896)

Art as a means of communication

Through Art, the author infects thereceivers of the feeling that the

author experiences.


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If the spectators, receivers or auditorsare infected by the feelings which theauthor has felt, that is art.

Activity of Art: to transmit thatfeeling that others may experience

the same feeling.

what we see around us is only asmall bit of what art truly is.


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Real art vs. Counterfeit art

If one is able to be infected by thefeeling of the author accordingly,

then one experiences Real Art

Real art has three (3) conditions ofthe degree of consciousness

If the work doesnt infect the

spectators in any manner, then its

counterfeit art.

If a work lacks any of the three

conditions, then it is counterfeit art.


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3 conditions of degree of

infection

On the greater or lesser individualityof the feeling transmitted;

on the greater or lesser clearness w

on the sincerity of the artist, i.e., onthe greater or lesser force with whichthe artist himself feels the emotion hetransmits.ith which the feeling istransmitted;


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First Condition: Individuality

A real work of art destroys, in theconsciousness of the receiver, theseparation between himself and the

artist - not that alone, but alsobetween himself and all whose mindsreceive this work of art.


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Second Condition: Clearness

The clearness of expression assistsinfection because the receiver, whomingles in consciousness with the

author, is the better satisfied the moreclearly the feeling is transmitted,which, as it seems to him, he has long

known and felt, and for which he hasonly now found expression.


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Third Condition: Sincerity

As soon as the spectator, hearer, orreader feels that the artist is infectedby his own production, and writes,

sings, or plays for himself, and notmerely to act on others, this mentalcondition of the artist infects the

receiver


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Therefore this third condition -sincerity - is the most important of thethree. It is always complied with in

peasant art, and this explains whysuch art always acts so powerfully;but it is a condition almost entirely

absent from our upper-class art,which is continually produced byartists actuated by personal aims of

covetousness or vanity.


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