Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) is a deeply personal reflection on pain, resilience, and identity. Painted after her divorce from Diego…
“Self portrait of the silence I have endured. Six years ago trauma PTSD Followed by sexual, physical mental emotional domestic violence spousal abuse, by a…
The passage of time is constant and this is something that can be anxiety inducing or reassuring to some. The knowledge that time will go…
The enigmatic Zelda Fitzgerald embodied the spirit of the Jazz Age and era of American flappers in the 1920s. Shadowed at the time by her…
While it cannot be confirmed, many have speculated that the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh suffered from manic depression. Theories have surfaced on whether his…
Loyola University recently hosted an exhibit on the works of William Utermohlen, an artist who documented his battle with Alzheimer’s disease through self-portraits over a…
Gustave Courbet’s “The Desperate Man” is a self-portrait that alludes to a connection between artistic genius and psychological distress, a common theme in the Romantic…
