still life frida kahlo

still life frida kahloPainted in 1951, this still life was commissioned by Frida Kahlo for Samuel Fastlicht, a dentist and friend of the Kahlo Rivera couple. At this point in her life, Frida was weak and often bedridden, and painted smaller works, often colourful still lifes full of symbolic elements linked to Mexican culture. Here, she combines humour, vitality and patriotism. At the centre of the composition is a small black xoloitzcuintle dog, emblematic of Mexico,

colourful facades

This post-impressionist painting symbolises the simplicity and beauty of the daily life of fishermen

Vermeer's classic portrait is illuminated by geometric shapes and brilliant colors

Vassily Kandinsky explores the relationship between shapes and colours and their impact on the viewer's emotions

while carefully rendered details

In this revisited version

August Macke created here one of his largest expressionnist paintings

welcoming hues of some of the façades

blue and red carpets

red and purple to create a lively and animated atmosphere

creating shadows and glows on the water and the figures

The figures are sketched in quick strokes