Frida

I recently saw the film Frida, a biography of the artist Frida Kahlo, and thought it was brilliant, I knew a little about her life and admired her Surrealist work but thought the performance of Salma Hayek in the film showed Frida's amazing character and bravery. 

The reason I'm posting about this is not only because I recommend the film, but because after I watched it, I looked up some of her works, and found this ('What I saw in the water', 1938).

I remembered the first time I saw it, probably when I was about 9 years old, my Mum had The Art Book and I used to flick through it, I remember spending hours looking at the images and detail of this painting and found it fascinating. It was probably the first Surrealist painting, or painting actually, I'd ever properly studied. I think it was one of the reasons I started to love art and subsequently design. One of the things that engaged me was probably the setting of the painting in the bath and that the perspective of the painting means you are seeing the scene through the eyes of the person in the bath, sharing in the emotion and feelings that are being experienced.