BLOG#1: Frida Kahlo

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as European influences that include Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain. Kahlo was married to and influenced by the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and shared his Communist views. Although she has long been recognized as an important painter, public awareness of her work has become more widespread since the 1970s. Her "Blue" house in Coyoacán, Mexico City is a popular museum, donated by Diego Rivera after his death in 1957.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
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Frida by Kahlo: A story in Self-Portraits
http://fbuch.com/fridaby.htm
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During her convalescence Kahlo had begun to paint with oils. Her pictures, mostly self-portraits and still lifes, were deliberately naive, filled with the bright colors and flattened forms of the Mexican folk art she loved. At 21, Kahlo fell in love with the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, whose approach to art and politics suited her own. Although he was 20 years her senior, they were married in 1929; this stormy, passionate relationship survived infidelities, the pressures of Rivera's career, a divorce and remarriage, and Kahlo's poor health. The couple traveled to the United States and France, where Kahlo met luminaries from the worlds of art and politics; she had her first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1938. Kahlo enjoyed considerable success during the 1940s, but her reputation soared posthumously, beginning in the 1980s with the publication of numerous books about her work by feminist art historians and others. In the last two decades an explosion of Kahlo-inspired films, plays, calendars, and jewelry has transformed the artist into a veritable cult figure.
http://www.fridakahlo.com/
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...: There is a theatrical show in Athens,Greece ,for the life of Frida,
these days...This show called "Frida-Frida" is directed
by Esther André González and is being played at the Theater of Kefallinias
Street in Kypseli,Athens...
http://www.athinorama.gr/theatre/data/performances/default.aspx?id=6161; March 17, 2008 at 4:06 PM
CHRIS I. G. said...: I know ,I heard good critics about this one ,at the first chance i will go definitely...; March 17, 2008 at 4:08 PM