This report has been prepared by: Caileigh Watson
Hi everyone and welcome back to FPWC
(Famous Painters With Caileigh) Today we are going to be learning about George
Littlechild’s painting “Red Horse Boarding School” and Frida Kahlo’s “The
Wounded Deer.”
George Littlechild was born in 1958 in Edmonton
and was taken from his family at birth. He was sent to 5 different foster homes
by the time he was 4.
Frida Kahlo was born Jul 6, 1907. When
she was a child, she caught polio and from then on, she had a limp. In 1925 she
was in a bus accident and spent the rest of her life suffering from it.
The important details of these paintings
lie within the artist’s story. In the Red Horse Boarding School one of the
hidden details lie in the stars. In the schools George was forced to go to if
you did a good job you got a gold star if you did a bad job you got a red star.
In The Wounded Deer Frida symbolized
herself as a stag with arrow sticking out all over her. The arrows symbolize
her pain and disappointment over her failed back surgery that she hoped would
be successful.
In “Red Horse Boarding School” the two symbols that are important are
the stars and the horse cut in
half. The horse symbolizes how the First
Nations people had their history torn away from them. The stars represented the stars that they got
as a grading method.
In “The Wounded Deer” the two important symbols are the broken branches
and the arrows. The branches represented
pain and depression and the arrows represented her feelings towards her failed
back surgery.
A similarity between these two paintings
is the pain and suffering that they both portray that the artist went through. This shows how many paintings are inspired
through pain and suffering.
