Frida Kahlo

by Salomon Grimberg

A book of Frida Kahlo's beautiful pictures.

Genres: Art, Art History, Biography, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[J.D. Steens · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has a nice plate collection of Kahlo’s paintings. She has a consistent, distinct style, but I wonder why there are so many self-portraits. The biographical information – her life, an interesting story – shows she had a lot of pain (early years, family of origin, relationship with Diego, as well as her own considerable physical pain) so I suppose much of her work might be an outward expression of that. In many respects, it was too graphic, jarring. Overall, though, the book is a good introduction to her and her work.

[Pan Ellington · Rating 5 out of 5]

brief overview of frida's life along with in depth analysis and close reads of her works. loved this one for its large format repros, of many paintings i had not seen until here...

[Dony Grayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Edición estadounidense impresa en china. Repaso biográfico-artístico de la vida de Frida Kahlo.

[Pamela Hale · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a little skimpy on the biography but the reproduction plates were good quality

[Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

she’ll always be an extraordinary visionary to me

[Dolcie · Rating 5 out of 5]

After visiting La Casa Azul in Coyoacan, I checked out over 10 books from the library about Frida Kahlo and this is the one I liked the most. It displayed her paintings beautifully and had lots of pictures of Frida's life. I liked that it just told about her life without including the typical interpretations of her paintings that to me are really distracting. In this book I read the most profound observation on her life. It pretty much said that Frida became a legend without really meaning to when all she ever wanted was to be loved. It was that simple, yet so complicated for Frida.