Artist Critique

      This painting was created by famous Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. The painting is called “Viva la Vida” it is an oil painting created in 1954. In the picture you can see it is mostly watermelons. There’s a lot of greens and reds in the painting for the watermelons. The painting is mostly circles and a few pointed edges. The background has a light blue and a light blue. The painting is not symmetrical, there’s watermelons with different sizes and they’re cut in different ways.

      The background has a light and a dark blue, it seems that there was reason for the artist to do this, to contrast both sides. The major figure in this painting is are the watermelon, but there seem to one that stands out the most, which is the watermelon in the middle. It is darker than rest and it seems to have some shine to it, it seems the artist intended for that watermelon to be the focal point in the painting. The paint also includes watermelons that are cut open and which some are a darker red than others. The watermelons seem to take up the most space in the painting.

      I feel like in this painting the artist was trying to represent life through these watermelons. I feel like the dark green water melon represents life when you’re new to the world and when you’re young and life seems to be perfect and caring. Then, the cut watermelons represent life as you’re growing up. I feel like they’re meant to represent that life isn’t easy and you encounter a lot of problems and sometimes you may not feel full, full as a person. The dark and light blue in the background could represent the good and the evil in life. But in the end you end up finding yourself when you’re old which is represented by the watermelon in the back, the one that’s full and old looking.

      In my opinion I really do like this painting. It is filled bright reds and greens. Filled with different shapes and sizes. And I like it because of what I feel like it represents.