"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint."
In many ways, Kahlo's work reminds me of Carter's writing and poetry, I find that a lot of similar themes are explored making me feel similar feelings and emotions when exploring both of their lives and works.
Kahlo explores the element of pain both mentally and physically in her work, she considers how love and life can effect her and portrays this in her art work.
She explores the beauty of nature and how this can represent the pain and the re-birth and beauty of life.
Both Kahlo and Carter explore nature as a way of representation of how pain and love can grow and be destroyed, while Kahlo uses imagery to explore this, Carter uses metaphors and poetry to express her feelings.
I particularly like the colours that Kahlo uses in her work, the brighter colours oppose the darker elements and meaning in her work. I want to consider using similar colours in my prints as a whole set in order to represent this idea of a dark element of work with senses of brighter colours coming through, much like the poetry of Carter.
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