Frida’s as well as Hieronymus Bosch’s art are often associated with genre of the surrealism. Clearly, the school of surrealism didn’t exist during the time when Bosch created his Garden, while surrealism began in 1920s and was well developed by 1930s and 1940s, when Frida painted What the Water Gave me and Moses, the works that I explore in my comparative study. …show more content…
But Frida hesitated to relate herself with any art movement. She wrote to her friend, the art historian Antonio Rodriquez in 1952: "I really don't know whether my paintings are Surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most honest expression of myself, taking no account of the opinions and prejudices of