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Frida Kahlo
The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.
In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a hybrid real-surreal language of living: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore the Communist political ideals which Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as “the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”
This book introduces the rich body of Kahlo’s work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.
In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a hybrid real-surreal language of living: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore the Communist political ideals which Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as “the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”
This book introduces the rich body of Kahlo’s work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.
140 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2015
About the author
Andrea Kettenmann
24 books19 followersAndrea Kettenmann a étudié l'histoire de l'art à Giessen, Göttingen et Heidelberg avant de rejoindre le département d'histoire de l'art de l'Université de Hambourg.
En 1986, elle a visité le Mexique grâce à une bourse; elle vit maintenant, en travaillant comme historien de l'art indépendant.
Elle a travaillé sur plusieurs expositions et a rédigé divers catalogues, dont celui de la rétrospective sur Diego Rivera à Detroit.
En 1986, elle a visité le Mexique grâce à une bourse; elle vit maintenant, en travaillant comme historien de l'art indépendant.
Elle a travaillé sur plusieurs expositions et a rédigé divers catalogues, dont celui de la rétrospective sur Diego Rivera à Detroit.
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