Frida Kahlo Tree of Hope Stand Fast
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Is it dark, is it light? Is it day, is it night? It is both and yet neither. The sky is ominously separated: on the one side a bright blue sky juxtaposed with a gloomy, sinister-looking sun suspended like a planet and set against clouds that seem to swoop from the mountains in the background. To the right of the painting it is nighttime; an intense full moon creates shadows on warped and mysterious clouds floating endlessly around the stormy sky.
Distant mountains appear remote and unreachable. The earth is cracked and broken, filled with greens and browns and yellows and reds, blending and creating an extraordinary barrage of colour that brings to life Frida Khalo's emotions. The intense variety and variation of colour gives an impression of tumultuous emotions, opposites and contrasts.
Further down, we have the main focus of the painting the two Fridas. One, on the left of the painting in the sunlight appears lying down on a hospital gurney facing away from the viewer; ragged bleeding surgical incisions are torn across her back...