2015年3月13日 · Before Frida Kahlo reached her 25th birthday, the Mexican artist had contracted polio, survived a horrific bus accident and endured a traumatic miscarriage. However, the loss of her baby -- compounded by the alienation she was experiencing while living in Detroit -- shaped her artistic vision and propelled her career forward, as shown in a new ...

Henry Ford Hospital is a 1932 oil-on-metal painting by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo about her experience of delivering a dead male fetus on 4 July at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, United States, when she was approximately 3 1 ⁄ 2 months pregnant.

2010年7月28日 · Her pelvic injury served as a prelude for her traumatic reproductive life—three miscarriages, one of which caused severe hemorrhaging, and a lengthy recovery. However, Kahlo did not let her reproductive tragedies consume her entire life. Instead, she examined and worked through her experiences in her paintings.

2022年11月6日 · Frida Kahlo’s work breaks the taboo of miscarriage and the depiction of pregnant bodies in a unique way. This article will focus on how Kahlo explores the representation and self-representation of a maternal subject, and challenges cultural expectations of the maternal body and ideals attached to it.

This painting is a reflection of what Frida felt when she was having a miscarriage at Henry Ford Hospital. There are six objects flying around her. A male fetus which is the son of her and Diego she has longed to have. The fetus is based on a medical illustration. An orchid looks like a uterus.

On July fourth she endured a horrible life-threatening miscarriage. Frida cannot finish this painting due to the physical and psychological pain from the miscarriage. This painting depicted what would have happened if the baby is delivered by cesarean.

2023年12月6日 · Frida positions the artist’s 1932 miscarriage as a result of this prior trauma, thus linking disability and reproductive health in ways that have been largely neglected by critics and scholars.

2012年5月3日 · Kahlo had several miscarriages and at least three therapeutic abortions. The flying bed, which was painted during Kahlo’s visit to the US, deals with the miscarriage she suffered in Detroit. Antelo suggests that this painting “illustrated the fragility of her body and calls attention to the pelvic bones and uterus” .

2023年4月17日 · This article briefly discussed the miscarriage painting “Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed)” by Frida Kahlo, which she painted in 1932 after her miscarriage in Detroit City. It depicts the small and exposed figure of Kahlo on a hospital bed, bloodied in the remains of what she just endured.

2015年4月29日 · Frida Kahlo had her own struggles, but our own abortion bugaboos 83 years later were not among them.