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catrina elaborada en Michoacan pintada por la artista Helena Nares,
creando una pieza unica y bien cuidada hasta en el ultimo detalle.
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Colorful envelope from a page of a Frida Kahlo calendar that I made and sent to a Postcrosser in the United States.
Taken in Bisbee, Arizona.
Bisbee is a way cool place with cool shots to be had all over the place. Unfortunately my ride was in much more of a hurry than I was, so I got very little of what was there. Oh, to go back with time to wander and explore!
Frida seems to be a very popular subject for public art of all sorts. I think it is somewhat tied up with her eyebrows.
My grand niece was dressed as Frieda for Halloween when she was 2 pr 3 and probably had not idea who Frieda was.
Viva la Vida – Es lebe das Leben
Frida Kahlo - das Gesicht des revolutionären Mexicos.
Künstlerin, Revolutionärin, Feministin.
Frida Kahlo wird am 6. Juli 1907 geboren. Später hat sie dieses Ereignis umdatiert auf die Geburtsstunde der mexikanischen Revolution, den 7. Juli 1910. Mit dieser Revolution fühlt sie sich verbunden, das neue unabhängige Mexiko, das sich selbst von der Diktatur des Porfirio Diaz befreit hat, das will sie als lebendiges Denkmal verkörpern.
Zu ihrem Mythos trug ihr bewegtes Leben bei: ihre Krankheit, ihre Leiden, ihre Ehe mit Diego Rivera, dessen Untreue und ihre Affären. Hinzu kommen ihr revolutionärer Eifer und ein leidenschaftlicher Freiheitswille. Frida zeigte sich gern in traditioneller Tracht; die Frisur hochgesteckt nach Art der Frauen aus Oaxaca und angetan mit deren traditionellem Schmuck. Damit betonte sie ihre indigenen Wurzeln bewusst öffentlich. Dies war zu jener Zeit ungewöhnlich, zumal rassistische Kriterien für die Stellung in der stark geschichteten mexikanischen Gesellschaft maßgeblich waren. Kaum je lächelnd fixiert sie ihre Betrachter, ganz so wie sie sich immer selbst im Spiegel mustert. Oft kann sie das nur im Krankenbett. Nach einer Kinderlähmung und einem beinahe tödlichen Straßenbahnunfall 1925, vergeht kein Tag an dem sie ohne Schmerzen ist. Jahr für Jahr muss sie Operationen erdulden. Mit visionärer Fantasie thematisiert die früh zum Kommunismus bekennende Künstlerin ihre Leiden und wird so zur Legende. Angeregt von der mexikanischen Volksmalerei schafft sie einen Bilderkosmos in dessen Mittelpunkt sie sich selbst sieht.
Nach ihrem Tod 1954 war es lange Zeit still um sie, und erst zu Beginn der siebziger Jahre wurde sie im Zuge der Frauenbewegung wiederentdeckt. Seitdem hat es zahlreiche Ausstellungen ihrer Werke und vielfältige Hommagen an die Frau und Künstlerin Frida Kahlo gegeben, und ihre Popularität ist stetig gestiegen.“ Zu ihren Lebzeiten werden ihre Bilder nur einmal 1953 in México City gezeigt. Heute ist ihr Gesicht aus der internationalen und mexikanischen Kunstlandschaft nicht mehr weg zu denken.
Über das bewegte und von Krankheit gezeichnete Leben der Künstlerin Frida Kahlo ist so dermassen viel geschrieben und festgehalten worden, das es schwer fällt, hier eine kurze Beschreibung zusammen zu stellen.
Am besten ihr sucht euch selbst die Informationen zusammen und nehmt euch ein paar Tage Zeit und beschäftigt euch mit ihrer Biografie. Es lohnt sich!
Frida Kahlo, Coyoacán Mexico-City 1907 - 1954
Selbstbildnis mit offenem Haar - Selfportrait with loose hair (1947)
In 1946, Frida's health got worse and she made a trip to New York for a spinal fusion surgery. This operation was called "the beginning of the end" by Frida Kahlo since after this operation, her condition has been getting worse and worse even she consulted so many doctors and specialists. This self-portrait was painted while she was recovering from this surgery. Frida looks thin and exhausted in this painting. The legend on the scroll at the bottom of this painting reads:
"Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is July, 1947. In Coyoacan, Mexico, the place where I was born".
She stated herself as "37 years old" in the inscription but her real age was 40 at the time this portrait was painted. In this painting Frida depicted herslef with large volume of loose hair. It probably because she wants to please Diego Rivera since he is obsessed with her long hair.
This painting was auctioned by Christie's, New York, in May of 1991. It was sold for a wowing price of $1,650,000.
Source: www.fridakahlo.org/self-portrait-with-loose-hair.jsp
Frida Kahlo, Coyoacán Mexico-City 1907 - 1954
Stillleben mit Papagei und Fahne - Still life with parrot and flag (1951)
The composition of Still Life with Parrot and Flag is exquisite with vivid colors. In this painting, Frida was still able to paint in the sophisticated detailed manner for which she was known. A Mexican flag was included in the painting to symbolize her renewed interest in the politics of Mexico.
Source: www.fridakahlo.org
Self-portrait with Monkey, 1938
I like Frida very much. Her unusual symbolic imagery caught the attention of Surrealist, including Salvador Dali.
Kahlo has adorned her elongated neck with a bone and shell necklace symbolizing her embrace of ancient Mexican heritage. The dense net of hairy cacti and leaves behind her creates an other worldly realm to which Kahol's pet monkey seems to belong.
Frida Kahlo, Coyoacán Mexico-City 1907 - 1954
Selbstbildnis mit Dornenhalsband - Selfportrait with Thorn Necklace (1940)
This rather small painting (approximately 24 x 18 inches, 60 x 46 cm) was painted in the year of 1940. It shows Kahlo in a frontal position as she’s directly confronting the viewer’s gaze from the canvas. Her bold eyebrows hold the emphasis on her face as a thorn necklace strangles her throat, trailing down her chest like the roots of a tree as it draws blood from her neck. This element of the piece probably signifies her self-representation as a Christian martyr and the enduring pain experienced following her failed marriage.
In Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, Frida is surrounded by insects and animals, and is found in what can only be described as a lush, but suffocatingly dense jungle. A monkey sits behind her right shoulder, its eyes directed on its hands as it’s carelessly tugging at the thorn necklace and causing his host to bleed. A tiny black hummingbird with its wings outstretched dangles like a piece of jewelry from the painter’s throat. Above her head, two dragonflies hover in mid-air, just above the two butterfly clips nested in the elaborate hairstyle that crowns Kahlo’s head. Finally, a black cat with strikingly blue eyes peers over her the artist’s shoulder, looking menacingly at the space between Kahlo and the viewer.
Kahlo’s identification with indigenous Mexican culture greatly affected the aesthetic of the Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird. By relying on stalwart iconography from indigenous Mexican culture, Kahlo establishes herself in a tradition of rebellion against colonial forces – although a lesser factor in the painting when compared to the overall theme of suffering, this smaller topic should certainly not be overlooked.
The natural landscape of the Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird painting, which would normally be associated with fertility, contrasts with the deathly imagery in the foreground and has a vastly different symbolism than what’s traditionally associated with such depictions of nature. After all, Kahlo commonly employed flora and fauna in the background of her images in order to create a tight, claustrophobic space. She used the symbolic element of nature to simultaneously compare and contrast the link between female fertility with the barren and deathly imagery of the foreground.
The dead hummingbird hanging from Kahlo’s neck is considered to be a symbol of good luck charm in Mexican folklore, often associated with falling in love. An alternate interpretation, however, states that the hummingbird pendant is a symbol of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war, but the romantic mood of the painter at the time of the piece’s creation suggests that the small bird being a symbol of love makes a lot more sense.
Source: www.widewalls.ch/frida-kahlo-self-portrait-with-thorn-nec...
"Yo solía pensar que era la persona mas extraña en el mundo, pero luego pensé, hay mucha gente así en el mundo, tiene que haber alguien como yo, que se sienta bizarra y dañada de la misma forma en que yo me siento..."
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was not able to bear children because of the bus accident that happened to her in 1925. As a substitute for kids, she collected many dolls and pets like monkeys, dogs, birds, and even ad deer. In this self portrait, Frida painted herself with one of her Itzcuintli dogs. This kind of dog is very rare and expensive.
The animal in this painting was Frida Kahlo’s favorite pet dog, 'Mr. Xolotl'. Mr. Xolotl (show-low-tul) was an itxcuintli dog. Kahlo had several of these unusual-looking dogs, a hairless breed with an ancestry that is traceable back 3,000 years to the Aztecs, hence their appeal to Frida, enormously proud of her MesoAmerican heritage. Xolos (show-lows), for short, are related to Mexican hairless chihuahuas. The Aztecs both revered and ate xolos.
This original Kahlo self-portrait was seen and photographed in the exhibit entitled "Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
"Pies para qué os quiero, si tengo alas para volar" - Frida Kahlo.
"Feet, what do I need them for, if I have wings to fly" - Frida Kahlo.
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Para el grupo 52 anónimos: Tumbados.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), one of Mexico's greatest artists, was the wife of Diego Rivera who painted her in this, one of his greatest murals, called 'The Pan American Unity Mural". 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.
In this portrait, Kahlo is seen wearing hand-shaped silver earrings, a gift from Pablo Picasso when she visited him in Paris in 1939. At the time Rivera painted this mural, he and Kahlo had been divorced for a year and found themselves in San Francisco attempting to negotiate a weary truce. Rivera had arrived in San Francisco in June of 1940 and in December they were once again remarried at San Francisco City Hall. The honeymoon proved short. Kahlo left for Mexico before Christmas, two months ahead of her husband. She never visited San Francisco again.
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Frida with a man suit with some members of her family. Photo taken by her father in 1926. From left to right : sisters Adriana and Cristina, Frida, sousin Carmen Romero and Carlos Veraza.
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.