Week 8 Discussion Original Second Work
Option 1: Choose a work to discuss from one genre that interprets a work from another genre.
• Include the title, artist, and description of both works.
• Examine how the artist of the second work captured the subject or story of the first.
• Support your point(s) with a statement from the second artist that discusses the influence, reasoning, or interpretation of the original work on the second work.
What the Water Gave Me, 1938 by Frida Kahlo
Also known as “What I Saw in the Water”, the painting shows reflections in the water that are Frida’s images of life and death, happiness and sadness, comfort and pain, as well as her past and present. She once described the painting to her friend as, “An image of passing time, about time and childhood games in the bathtub and the sadness of what had happened to her in the course of life” (Fridakahlo.org, 2019).
What The Water Gave Me by Florence and The Machine 2011
The lead singer and song writer Florence Welch told NME Magazine that the song is....
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