For your paper, I’d like you to choose from the list below of experiences Frida had while living in the U.S. Then, I’d like you to reflect on the impact of these experiences on her as a person and artist, as many of these experiences inspired paintings or photographs taken by other artists. Second, I’d like you to reflect upon similar events/experiences you’re having today and compare the events of today with the events of the early 1930s, including your own responses to these events.
The following are experiences and paintings/photographs you can choose from (you only need to choose two works of art to focus on):
1) Racial injustice and the impact on African Americans (Endurance contest, Jim Crow laws in Arkansas, the Scottsboro Case, protests in NY). Paintings: Portrait of Eva Frederick and My Dress Hangs There. Photograph: Lucienne Bloch’s Frida Under the Sign “For Negroes.”