ART CRITICISM AND HISTORY

ART CRITICISM AND HISTORY

Select two artists or a group of artists from your area of study. Write a descriptive profile of the practice of each artist or group of artists. In your response outline how the artist¡¦s interests, beliefs, choices and actions can be interpreted using one of the frames.


Frida Kahlo and Peter Booth are both artists who create artworks that depict the interest, beliefs, choices and actions, in which the artists have taken. Although both are painters in the 20th Century, the artworks are very different in meaning and in style.

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo was a Mexican surrealist artist, feminist and revolutionist.
Most of Kahlo¡¦s artworks were all based upon, the misfortunes and struggle that occurred during Kahlo¡¦s life time.
One example of such includes, ¡¥The Broken Column¡¦. The Broken Column is a painting that consisted of a figure, (which was seen as Frida Kahlo), who is covered in pins and needles, and in the centre of the figur...