I honestly picked this painting because I can stare at it for hours and keep seeing something new. So much is going on in this, the symbolism, the depiction, the individual metaphors and the emotional reaction. This painting was drawn as a miniature mural, maybe as a result of influenced by her famous husband Diego Rivera, who is famous as a muralist . In this painting, in the center is an abandoned baby which has a third eye in his forehead. This baby's face resembles Diego Rivera and Frida always paint him with the third eye of wisdom in her other paintings. The birth is under a sun flanked by heroes, gods, other human beings and the hands of death. In the foreground there is a baby in the conch and which is spurting waters into the shell. Frida referred that as "symbol of love". There are branches extending out from the dead tree trunks. In many of her other paintings Frida use this to refer the life and death cycle in the world.
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