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Glamour of OC - Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray ("father" of Pop Art)
This poster outside the Fullerton Museum Center shows the photo "Frida with Red Rebozo, New York, 1939" taken by her friend and lover Nickolas Muray. The photo served as the basis of Frida's image in Diego Rivera's monumental mural "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda", originally done for the Hotel del Prado, now in its own museum in Mexico City.
Muray, born in Hungary, was a photographer trained in Germany with a studio in New York, as well as an Olympic fencer. He had a 10-year affair with Frida Kahlo (long kept secret from her husband Diego Rivera), documented in the exhibit in photos and letters. In addition there is a video with rememberances of Frida by her surviving art students.
Muray may be little remembered today, but in his time he was renowned for magazine, portrait, and celebrity photos. He introduced color photography to mass market advertising. His exhibits of advertising photos in the 1930's were the precursor of Andy Warhol's "Pop Art" paintings of soup cans and Brillo boxes in the 1960's.
Frida Kahlo's father was also a photography. Arrived about a year late to see an exhibit of his work in the Viceroy Period Museum in Tepotzotlan, Mexico.
Glamour of OC - Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray ("father" of Pop Art)
This poster outside the Fullerton Museum Center shows the photo "Frida with Red Rebozo, New York, 1939" taken by her friend and lover Nickolas Muray. The photo served as the basis of Frida's image in Diego Rivera's monumental mural "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda", originally done for the Hotel del Prado, now in its own museum in Mexico City.
Muray, born in Hungary, was a photographer trained in Germany with a studio in New York, as well as an Olympic fencer. He had a 10-year affair with Frida Kahlo (long kept secret from her husband Diego Rivera), documented in the exhibit in photos and letters. In addition there is a video with rememberances of Frida by her surviving art students.
Muray may be little remembered today, but in his time he was renowned for magazine, portrait, and celebrity photos. He introduced color photography to mass market advertising. His exhibits of advertising photos in the 1930's were the precursor of Andy Warhol's "Pop Art" paintings of soup cans and Brillo boxes in the 1960's.
Frida Kahlo's father was also a photography. Arrived about a year late to see an exhibit of his work in the Viceroy Period Museum in Tepotzotlan, Mexico.