HUM200 Presentation: Exploring Themes in Kahlo and Vivaldi's Works

This presentation draft for HUM200 explores the works of Frida Kahlo and Antonio Vivaldi, focusing on their impact and the themes they represent. The presentation examines Kahlo's painting, "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird," which expresses discomfort, sorrow, and suffering through symbolic representations. It contrasts this with Vivaldi's "La Primavera," a musical composition expressing joy and happiness, symbolizing spring. The presentation discusses how these cultural artifacts affect the audience, highlighting the expression of pain in Kahlo's work and the feeling of joy in Vivaldi's music. It also examines the personal and professional impact of studying the humanities, emphasizing the development of creative thinking, analytical skills, and a broader understanding of various subjects, including literature, history, and philosophy. The presentation uses references to support the analysis of the artworks and their impact on individuals and society. The presentation concludes by summarizing the development of a creative mindset and analyzing and interpreting skills to judge themes and objects.

Frida
Kahlo and
La
Primavera
IMPACT OF THE HUMANITIES ON
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCES

Overview Frida Kahlo
 Frida Kahlo's painting, Self-Portrait with
Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird is a
representation of experiencing a lot of
discomfort, sorrow, and suffering of the
painter (Prasad, 2018).
 Kahlo has expressed her pain through
the symbolic representations in her self-

La Primavera
 La Primavera is an orchestra
that is played by violins, cellos
to express spring.
 Vivaldi through La Primavera
has expressed his happiness
and joy through his musical
composition (Li et al., 2015).
 It has the connotation of peace
and soothing feeling
completely opposite to the
painting by Kahlo.

Impact the Audience
 The impact of La Primavera by Vivaldi and
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and
Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo have a lot of
effect on the audience .
 Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and
Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo I defined to be
symbol of sadness and pain (Courtney,
O'Hearn & Franck, 2016).
 La Primavera by Vivaldi one the other hand
shows the feeling of pain.

Evidence and important
personally
 Both the artists through their
painting and music compositions
have shared their feelings of pain
and enjoyment.
 evidently, the symbols used in the
painting enhances the feeling of
sadness among the viewer.
 Similarly, the composition reduces
the negative feeling of the people
and lasts for eternity (Ribeiro et al.,
2019).

Studying the Humanities
 From the study of humanity, I have
developed creative mind set up.
 As a student of humanities I have
developed analysing and interpreting
skills to judge the themes and objects
around me.
 I have developed proper understanding
of the theories of medicine and
technologies.
 Similarly, I have developed broader
understand of and open mind which is
helpful to understand themes of
literature, history and philosophy.

references:
 Courtney, C. A., O'Hearn, M. A., & Franck, C. C. (2016). Frida Kahlo:
portrait of chronic pain. Physical therapy, 97(1), 90-96.
 Li, P. C., Su, L., Yang, Y. H., & Su, A. W. (2015, October). Analysis of
Expressive Musical Terms in Violin Using Score-Informed and
Expression-Based Audio Features. In ISMIR(pp. 809-815).
 Prasad, A. (2018). Frida Kahlo: endurance and art. The
Lancet, 392(10153), 1105-1106.
 Ribeiro, F. S., Santos, F. H., Albuquerque, P. B., & Oliveira-Silva, P.
(2019). Emotional Induction Through Music: Measuring Cardiac and
Electrodermal Responses of Emotional States and Their
Persistence. Frontiers in psychology, 10.