Chapter 9

I was fascinated by this chapter because Hughes talked about art in sickness and how past and present artists use their illness to speak to us. I liked the painting of the Mexican painter , Frida Kahlo, who suffered a severe accident and suffered terrible injuries as well as pain from her husband. Kahlo wanted her audience to not only see her pain, but to feel it. Her painting featured tears falling down her face, a metal brace opening to show the her physical and mental pain from her spine and in her relationship. The other part that Hughes wrote about Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles and their lost of eyesight was interesting because of their inner eye and their imagination for life especially in their music. I thought it was hilarious on the movie, Ray, when Jamie Foxx who played Ray Charles touched the women's wrist to see if they were slim or full figured so he could go out with them.