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Pauline Marion Levy (1910-1990), a Hollywood actress known by her stage name Paulette Goddard, is pictured here in a 1940 mural by famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera called "Pan American Unity". Rivera depicted himself holding Goddard's hand, and sharing the 'ceiba' tree' of Life and Love while his ex-wife (at the time), Frida Kahlo stood directly behind them. Rivera had a serious love affair with Paulette, who at the time was married to Charlie Chaplin, but when Goddard refused to marry him he wrote to Frida asking her to come to San Francisco. Frida was added to the picture and she and Rivera were remarried later that year while he completed working on this mural. Though it is said that Rivera loved and respected Frida, he often showed a personal disregard for the women he was involved with.
There are two children pictured to the right of Goddard. One is a Mexican child that Rivera painted from memory and the other is Donald Cairns, the son of Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998), a prominent Californian post-war artist, muralist and social activist, who was Rivera's primary assistant on this project.
The entire Pan American Unity Mural, of which this is but a small segment, was Rivera's largest contiguous work of art. The mural exists today and is located in the student theater at the Ocean Avenue campus of San Francisco City College. The mural was originally painted on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay and was intended for the City College from the start. But the college building to house the mural was never built. World War II had started and steel and concrete were scarce. So the mural was put in storage for 20 years until 1961 when it was brought it out to hang in the entryway of the student theater now called the Diego Rivera Theater.
The wedding photo of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's parents...Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez (1876-1932) and German/Mexican photographer Guillermo Kahlo (1871-1941)...taken on February 21, 1898.
The Kahlo's daughter Frida (1907-1954), born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon, was a Mexican painter who achieved great international popularity. Frida 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. Kahlo was married to and influenced by the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and shared his Communist views.
This vintage photo of Frida's parents was seen and photographed in the exhibit entitled "Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
Lola Alvarez Bravo, Frida Kahlo with 1930 Self-Portrait drawing by Diego Rivera, Coyoacan, circa 1945.
Vicente Wolf Photography Collection
Lola Alvarez Bravo © 1995 Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation
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This is also for 365: The 2013 Edition's Week 11 theme: About Me. I fell in love with Mexico on my first visit, when I knew no Spanish and had no clue who Frida Khalo was. One of our stops was Frida's home, La Casa Azul, which is a museum dedicated to her life and work.
I love how the framed piece is reflected on the cover of the book -- totally unintentional, but it worked out great!
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Did this as a part of a package that goes to Australia to a Frida-Kahlo-admirer
5x5 inches
Her head is adorned with fabris and paper flowers, beads and buttons - i owe this inspiration to HollyLovesArt!
detalle de frida catrina con su perico al hombro pintada desde michoacan por M. Helena Nares.
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I dressed up as Frida Kahlo a few years back for halloween and didn't have any pictures taken of me. I'm trying to convince Mike to dress up as Diego Rivera.
photo by mike
Portrait of Frida Kahlo posted on a fence in Balmy Alley..... the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Kahlo (1907-1954), who along with her husband, Diego Rivera, were two of Mexico's greatest painters. Born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon in 1907, she began painting shortly after she was severely injured in a bus accident in 1925. She met Diego Rivera while he was working on a mural project at her school, the renowned National Preparatory School, and married him in 1929. Their marriage was a tumultuous one going through many periods of separation.
Kahlo exaggerates her facial hair, moustache, side-burns and joined eyebrows, deliberately playing up the androgynous and earthy aspects of her natural yet unconventional beauty (excerpt from the-classroom.org.uk/lessons-and-resources/by-subject/art... )
Image description: Old-fashioned Western shirt made from quilting cotton prints. The colors are bright green, aqua, red, yellow and more. The buttons are very highly decorated. The planned effect was for it to be very visually busy, almost clashing, but just short of painfully garish. I've cropped my head out of the photo to keep the focus on the shirt. I've posed with my arms up against my chest so tha the contrasting and piped sleeve details are shown.
Folkwear pattern 212 "Five Frontier Shirts" www.folkwear.com/products/212-five-frontier-shirts
Alexander Henry "Viva Frida" fabric web.archive.org/web/20160620044259/https://www.ahfabrics....
Blumenthal Fabric Sensations button 3616
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Illustrazione in tecnica mista (penna biro, colore pantone e colore acrilico) su foglio di carta.
El conjunto folklórico del centro de educación artística "Frida Kahlo" se compone de bailarines y de grandes músicos. Su programa incluye danzas originales y particularmente espectaculares, para que su espectáculo sea una verdadera fiesta.El grupo muestra los principales estados de México tan diferentes en sus danzas, sus músicas y sus trajes.
Day Twenty Nine
Frida Kahlo (1907 -1954)
What the Water Gave Me, 1938 (image by heyou via flickr)
Following a terrible accident in 1925, Kahlo began to paint. Her passionate, vibrant work is both full of colour and sadness. This painting is full of visionary, surreal symbols that she would use again and again, showing her emotional life as a woman and of her pain.