Source: WTL research files.
Canvas: "El sol y la vida" (The Sun and Life), 1947.
Comments: In 1946, Frida Kahlo won the national prize for painting with her canvas "Moses", and she undergoes an operation on her spinal column. Regarding this painting, various art critics see symbols for male and female genitalia. Just to the right of center is a symbolic representation of the sun, one might say, the giver of life according to some cosmologies or theologies or theogonies. Above the circle of the sun is a foetus crying, while several of the seed pods also suggest tears.
Human Questions Within the Humanities: (A) What do the tears symbolize? What Mexican and/or universal cosmologies maintain that the sun is the (male) giver of life? (C) What does this circular sun suggest within the context of Latin American humanities?