Paintings
Every painting is a puzzle. The composition, the colours, the objects placed carefully in the background — none of it is accidental. Artists have always spoken in a visual language that rewards the patient eye, hiding ideas, beliefs, warnings, and desires inside images that appear, on the surface, to simply be beautiful. This is where we slow down, look closer, and ask what is really going on.
What Does Frida Kahlo’s Self Portrait “El Sueño” Symbolise?
Painted in 1940, El Sueño (La cama) emerged during one of the most turbulent periods of Frida Kahlo’s life. That year she remarried Diego Rivera after a painful divorce, witnessed the assassination of her former lover Leon Trotsky, and endured the worsening effects of lifelong illness and injury.
