1media/SlideB.JPG2016-09-15T04:00:54-07:00Angelia Mullered5cb113d48ec91158427c2bf225a8cba4decfe0113165Chapter Twoplain3231532017-01-07T06:01:04-08:00Angelia Mullered5cb113d48ec91158427c2bf225a8cba4decfe0Kahlo’s body is a: “metaphor for the totality of her life”. According to Alonso, the body’s mission is to project hostile emotions towards the audience; in the same sense Kahlo’s depiction of the body best expresses torment, where blood is the greatest articulation of violence on her body. Kahlo’s artworks seem to draw pleasure from the audience in a masochistic way. For instance, blood portrays disaster on the one hand, and on the other signifies purification in the sense that, upon contemplation, the viewer: “releases contained emotions that purge his or her consciousness”. The reflection of the water in What the Water Gave Me is her life and death, happiness and sadness, comfort and pain, past and present. According to Friis “the uneasy sensation of direct address and the tensions between public and private and between animus and anima lend their work the unique ability to make us feel like it is about us, while insisting, quite forcefully, that it is not”.