Comparison of artists

While looking at the works of Marina Abramovic, Frida Kahlo, and Cui Xiuwen, I took notice to the difference in style before I noted any comparisons. First off, Frida Kahlo was born a great many years before the other two and is now deceased. She painted rather than took images or photographs. Moving onto the comparisons, an obvious one is that they are all female artists. That is not to be overlooked though because that most likely has a big influence on the types of works they did. Abramovic and Xiuwen both work with photography and I believe some altered photography as well. The majority of their art works have a repeating female figure in them, in Abramovic’s case; it is herself, while Xiuwen uses a little girl instead. With Abromovic being the main figure in her works, she is similar to Frida Kahlo who did a very many self-portraits of herself with some variations. The feelings and emotions of the artist are also depicted in their works like Happy Christmas and the Two Fridas. The emotions that Frida expresses in her work are similar to that of Xiuwen’s series of A Day in 2004. In The Little Deer, Frida’s head is placed on a deer and she is shot a great many times with arrows. Those arrows are like the bruises all over the little child in a few of the A Day in 2004 works. They both show pain and suffering in a different way.