Spanish Art-Interpretation

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.

From these art pieces we can learn pieces of these artists that can only be expressed through paintings. We can learn their secrets that were too painful to share and we can make connections that were never there before.