Draft of the painting

  This painting called ' The Wounded Deer' is one of the paintings that was painted by Frida Kahlo to express herself. This painting shows the pain that Frida Kahlo had been suffered for the following reasons.
  First of all, in the foreground, we can see that there's an animal that has a body of a deer and a head of human, which is creepy. According to the portraits of Frida Kahlo, we can infer that this head is Frida herself. Plus, this deer-human hybrid is shot by nine arrows, which indicates that Firda is suffering from something in her mind, and this is her only way to express herself.
  Secondly, this painting has a theme of darkness. To be more specific, to focus on the trees in the foreground, it is obviously that these trees are damaged by something, and there is a broken stick in front of this animal with a human head. Furthermore, there is a cloud in the background, it looks like a tornado. According to my assumption,  the tornado has happened in the forest and then gone. However, there is an ocean behind the forest, but the deer cannot reach the ocean. This may imply that Frida has met some difficulties in life but she couldn't get away from.
  In addition, the intense comparison between the ocean in the background and the dark forest in the foreground remind us of Van Gogh's ' wheat field with crows'. What does this comparison represent? From my point of view, the deer represent Frida Kahlo, the trees represent the situation she was in, and the ocean means the psychological and physical freedom. She was desirable to seek for freedom, yet she was restricted by the difficulties she met. This painting is a way to express her feelings.
      Generally speaking, this painting implies the difficulties Frida Kahlo has met, and this painting is the dark side of herself. I love this painting because it's creative, and she didn't express her feeling directly in the painting, instead, she let us to guess what she was hiding.









The wounded deer.

This wounded deer in the painting represent the artist herself since she had
1. The deer with a human head with injuries
2.the foreground and the background
3. The comparison between the foreground and the background.
These thing shows the pain of the artist. Frida Kahlo painted this painting to express her feelings.




                         'The wounded deer' : Frida Kahlo's wounded heart


   In this painting called 'the wounded deer' is one of Frida Kahlo's most famous paintings. This painting was made when Frida was in her difficult times in her life, and she had a lot of pain at that time. In this painting, Frida expressed her feelings, her pains by  drawing a deer In a forest. What I meant by that, the deer which is badly wounded shows a numb expression.
  To begin with, the deer is not actually a deer, is a monster with a human head. According to the portraits of Frida Kahlo, this deer has a head of her face. To be more specific, this deer represent part of herself. As we can see, the deer with Frida's face is shot by nine arrows, and it is lying on the ground.There are four arrows near the heart of the deer, and five arrows on its body.  There is one arrow shoots it's heart where has the most blood on the wound, this represent Frida's heartbroken.  However, even if the deer is shot by many arrows, it's expression shows its calmness and equanimity.  This is a weird  thing of this painting, this probably means the deer which represent Frida Kahlo is numb that it cannot feel any pain. This exactly shows how painful she was at that time since she was numb.
   The deer is the content of the painting, however, the scene is very important as well. Take a close look to the painting, the deer is in a forest with damaged trees around , the trees have no leaves on them. There is a broken stick in front of the deer. The interesting is that this stick has leaves on it, unlike other trees.  If these trees symbolize the hopes,  the meaning of the stick is that the final hope has shattered. Then, the, background is a beautiful blue ocean. However, it can be seen that there is a huge cloud above the ocean. From my point of view, it looks like a tornado just came or the tornado is coming. This may represent the difficulties in Frida's life.
   At last , the comparison of the foreground and the background is so intense. To be mor specific, the fore ground is covered with dark colors. The trees are painted in dark green and black,and the deer is painted in brown, there is only one light part of the foreground, which is the place the stick lies on. That area is painted in a lighter green. To compare, the background which is the ocean part is bright, Frida Kahlo use blue and white with a little black to depict the scene in the sea. The ocean part seems big and wide where as the foreground make people feel narrow. This method emphasizes the narrowness of the foreground.  The painting indicates that the deer is trapped in the wood even though the freedom is close to it, and it is shot by arrows, which implies that Frida's mind was mentally restricted at that time.
     To sum up, this painting was a way for Frida Kahlo to express her pains. She used a gender but obvious way to show what she was suffering. However, the connection between the broken trees and the blue ocean is still a mystery. What I can do is to guess and analyze what the meaning of this connection.