Questions surround artist Frida Kahlo’s “El Aborto” lithograph
Kahlo depicted herself mourning with tears rolling down her cheeks. At the bottom left, she drew a healthy fetus attached to her by an umbilical cord, suggesting her unfulfilled role as a mother. On the right, an arm holding a heart-shaped palette for paint emerges from behind her body, as if to assert her role as an artist.
~ The Detroit Institute of Arts gallery description of a lithograph by artist Frida Kahlo usually referred to as “El Aborto”, Hyperallergic, April 29

The backstory, for those who are curious, is that Kahlo could not have children because her reproductive organs were injured in a bus accident. The accident also seriously damaged her spinal column and required long hospital stays, during which she painted from bed. So there is a connection, but it’s not the case that she had an abortion in order to focus on her art.
This is awesome. I love Kahlo. It is sad the art world shuns this deeper aspect of the living arts. Damien Hirst recently produced the Miraculous Journey and Veritas after his spectacle with Cartrain drew attention to the invaluable importnace of conception rights. Unfortunately, the art world missed the prominence of this work to critical thinking, and instead, ignored it; the usual response of the liberal fashionist pretending to have a claim as an artists.
Please see VisageDeVie.com for a more thorough elaboration.