I think that the Mexican work is the most symbolic that we have studied in depth so far. Yes some of the others were too, like the crows in the cornfield, but the paintings by Frida Kahlo were very symbolic, and the movie helped to show that aspect. If I had just seen her work without the movie, it would have been very different. Now that I know all the pain she was in, and what she went through, like loosing her baby, the car accident,etc. it is all reflected in her paintings.

Sometimes I wonder it you need more than tallent to be a "great" artist. I wonder if you also need to have some traumatic event in your life, or to be insane, or suffer from some disease, or injury. Where are all the happy artists?