Artists Quick overview background Frida Kahlo Born in Coyoacan, Mexico, 1907.

Bus crash at 18, life of pain, over 30 operations and the amputation of one leg below the knee, married Diego Rivera who was 43 when she met him at 22, married in 1929. Complex cultural heritage. Died 1954. Tracy Emin Salvador Dali Born in 1963, lives Born in Catalonia, and works in Spain in 1904, London, England. passed away in Lost her virginity 1989 from heart when raped at 13, failure. Painter, lived a harsh sculptor, upbringing. Raised photographer and in Margate, Kent. filmmaker. Studied Attended in Madrid, Spain, Maidstone Art but was expelled. College before As a young man, he moving to London joined the surrealist to complete a group, great master of arts at the showman, who Royal Academy of loved to dress in Arts in 1987. eccentric clothes. He was obsessed with his wife Gala For me, being an To shock people artist isnt just and portray the about making nice subconscious, the things or people surrealistic and patting you on your dreamlike. back; its some hand-painted kind of dream communication, a photographs, message. discredit I really cannot completely the carry on living with world of reality all that stuff stuck inside me. She uses art to vent Everyone I Have Ever Slept with From 1963-1995, 1995, appliqud tent, mattress and light, 122 x 245 x 215cm Fantastic to Feel Beautiful Again, 1997, Neon, 107 x 127 x 10cm Persistence of Memory, 1931, oil on canvas, 24.1 x 33cm

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Autobiographical, painting her own state of mind, experiences, feelings and her search for identity as well as her politics and the physical reality of her pain. - I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best. self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird, 1940, oil on canvas, 62.5 x 48cm The Broken Column, 1944, oil on canvas

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Soft Self-portrait with Fried Bacon, 1941, oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm

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Nature Morte Vivante (Still Life Fast Moving), 1956, oil on canvas, 126 x 160cm Simplistic, Subjective frame, childlike style, her attempt to portray works are often subconscious and small in size as she dreams, the surreal. painted in bed. The surrealist Issues personal manifesto symbolism, (statement of aims), multiculturalism, written by Andre in unique female 1924, states to experiences, resolve the dreams, previously subconscious, contradictory surrealism, Kahlos conditions of dream works are strongly and reality into an linked with her life absolute reality, a experiences, yet super reality. also relate to world Surrealism was a events, politics and modern art style the wider art world that went beyond realism, often responding to the unconscious and creating fantastic dream world compositions of detailed realistic objects. I am broken. I am Her life slops over Dali brought happy to be alive as into her art. But together unlikely long as I can when its there its objects in paint. expertly edited. unexpected My themes, she Its too intimate, combinations, just said, are my too personal. Its a as they are in sensations, my shock to hear it. dreams. states of mind, my reactions to life.

Tree of Hope, 1946, oil on masonite, 56 x 41cm

Theres a Lot of Money in Chairs, 1994, assorted materials stitched to a chair