Abramovic-Kahlo-Xiuwen Comparison

Marina Abramović

When looking through Marina Abramovic's selected works, I immediately realized that she focused all of her digital art of the body, and what the body does. Her pictures focus on nude women, which she see’s as a point of beauty. Through her expression of nude women, Marina Abramovic sees the point of beautiful meaning the female figure. Because we can see straight into the pictures, we can personally put ourselves mentally into the pictures, and see the emotions that she is going through in the pictures. She has many different emotions such as anger, upset, content, and. She pushes herself in her paintings to get the most out of her art. She mostly uses her body as visual art to show her audience that she is the subject of almost every one of her pieces of artwork. Her work shows the relationships between self, as well as person-to-person interaction.

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo’s paintings tell the story of her life through her paintings. She puts herself in her own paintings, and she gives us a inside view of what happened during the course of her life. She endured a painful accident during the course and her life, and that influenced her art. We see that she is in pain in many of her paintings, which we can assume was from her accident. In the shown painting, her unibrow is prominent. While many may think that it looks funny, and that she should have not painted it in her paintings, but she thought that it was a characteristic of herself that she needed to show other people. She thought that it was a beautiful trait of hers that she needed to share. All of the colors in her paintings seem to be closely related, easily identifying her paintings. Marina Abramovic shows naked women as her view as “beautiful”, but on the other hand Frida Kahlo shows her view of beautiful women as having a dark, beautiful unibrow. Frida Kahlo see’s her personal pain as a point of beauty.

Cui Xiuwen

Cui Xiuwen’s photos feature the pregnant woman. Pregnancy is known to be a beautiful experience that a woman gets to endure. Cui Xiuwen shows the beauty through her photos of the pregnant women. It is stated that Cui Xiuwen was single, which makes it ironic that she paints pregnant women. She focuses on the nervousness that comes along with dealing with the pregnancy term. Cui painted the pregnant woman because she see’s pregnancy in a women as the force of beauty. All three of these artists have in common that they see the female body as beautiful.