How FRIDA KAHLO turns suffering into art

sometimes all it takes is learning a new word to completely blow the lid on how you see things today I want to teach you two such powerful words words that can give your creativity a new color a new color that maybe has been lacking from your art for a while now the first word you need to adopt is a word that will immediately improve your artistic process just like it did for Frida Kahlo one of my favorite painters of all time this word describes everything that drove her to success here's the back story Frida Kahlo

in 1925 she was catching a bus with her high school sweetheart Alejandro Gomez Arias the driver decided to try and pass an electric Streetcar the other driver didn't realize the intentions of the bus and crashed right into the side of it it dragged for a number of feet and crashed again hitting a huge corner of a building Frida was immediately thrown down by the force of the accident several passengers were killed instantly and others died later from their engines miraculously Frida and Alejandro survived her spinal column was broken in three places her collarbone was broken

as were her third and fourth ribs her right leg had 11 fractures and her right foot was dislocated and crushed her shoulder was out of joint and her pelvis broken in three places the steel handrail had literally skewered her body at the level of her abdomen entering on the left side and exiting through her vagina and Freda was older in her trademark dark humor she would say that the accident stole her virginity but the time she spent recovering in a body cast would engender one of the most revelatory painting practices the world has ever seen

kala was completely confined to her bed for about three months and it was during this time that she began experimenting with self-portraiture her mother crafted an easel that she could use from her bed and her father who was a professional photographer and an amateur painter himself kept her supplied with brushes and paints and became one of the greatest female artists of all time from her bed so yeah the first word that I'd love to add to your vocabulary you know as your brand new word of the day is transmutation [Music] transmutation is such a juicy

word isn't it the dictionary definition says the action of changing energy from one state to another I know you haven't been taught to see things this way but the events and the situations that happen in your life they aren't good they aren't bad they're just energy and you know all those raw emotions you feel energy they're just pure energy also that's right and wherever there's energy it can totally be transformed Alchemists have been doing it for years witches have been doing it for years and you know what it's your Birthright as an artist to take

that energy and to transform it into something beautiful transmutation needs to become your best friend I'm the king of adapting like someone comes up hey bad news this didn't happen you know what I do I say [ __ ] all right what's our options okay figure the options out and you figure it out from there because you could sit and dwell and cry about it or you could just be like huh okay we'll do this perfect sometimes the solution of the problem is better than the original idea but how how father Bronx do I transmute

energy into art where do I even begin you start with the most basic most Primal most powerful energy source there is your pain just like Frida Kahlo did you go through your life for a long time you think that no one has ever suffered the way I've suffered you know my God my God and then you realize that your suffering does not isolate you they are suffering is your Bridge that many people have suffered before you many people are suffering around you and always will and all you can do is bring it hopefully a little

light into that suffering and begin to change it to change your situation which brings us to the second word you need to become obsessed with Frida Kahlo made 143 paintings and 55 of those paintings were selfies and those are her most popular Works coincidence not at all look at the eyes in those paintings have you ever noticed that the look she has is the same in everyone how would you describe her gaze boredom [Music] blase blase what I see is a look that says I don't give a [ __ ] look again and you'll see

it too but that's not the most elegant way of expressing that now is it if you want a nicer way of saying it like in one word a word that you can say in church a word that you could say in front of small children a more spiritual word the word you need to relearn and reclaim as your artistic inheritance as your new weapon of choice is acceptance acceptance that touchy feely New Age word father I hate that word you hate it because you never learned what it truly means how hardcore it is and how

to use it [ __ ] acceptance is not tolerating unpleasant Behavior or tolerating an unpleasant situation an acceptance is not saying to yourself I guess it wasn't meant to be in lying down while people walk all over you there's no power in that there's no agency in that there's no energy transmutation in that acceptance the mystery School way is when you get that Frida Kahlo look in your eyes and you decide you're going to embrace the pain you're going to take that energy that's been trying to bring you down and transmute it into art do

you feel like because of what you've endured that like like if you transcended giving a [ __ ] it's a radical acceptances are great phrase radical acceptance It's like well that's not the world anymore this is hard now yeah but this new version of life and it's not going to be better tomorrow that's the hardest thing yeah it's not tomorrow's not going to take that away from me my hope you bastard no but that's the only way you're gonna get that's the only way to find peace tomorrow's gonna blow just like today is yeah and

all the best efforts all the Superhuman things there isn't some like you know physical therapist yeah you know come on man you can do it it's just gonna suck suck suck suck suck suck yeah and anybody who's been through anything will tell you that acceptance is how you survive anything man that is the truth radical acceptance of what is versus what was my dad likes to say that I was unpunishable as a child that when whenever he take away television allowance privileges or social time away from me whenever I do something wrong I would just

turn around and behave like that thing never existed in the first place it was instantly dead to me even at that young age I was on to something Stella says no one can take away the worlds that you create in your mind no one can stop you from expressing it either acceptance is the ultimate Act of defiance you get to control how you react and if you're an artist you react by making art turn that very thing or situation to your advantage make art out of it maybe even sell a million copies who knows that

way the enemy never wins the underlying message in Frida kahlo's work be your own news no matter what your circumstances in other words acceptance this is who I am [ __ ] but to get to that point where you can actually inspire yourself you have to become that guy or that girl who's decided that their very core that they will never allow a negative situation to pollute that Sacred Space called their art from now on when Life deals you a bad hand two words acceptance and transmutation embody that attitude and then go make art out

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