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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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