Re: [ranchos] Frida Kahlo

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

I saw the special on Frida Kahlo on the PBS station
from Los Angeles the other night.  Like her
husband,she also became a famous artist. But married
to Diego Rivera probably did not help her mental and
physical state of being.  

Alberto.
   

  
--- Santos Luna <mistyriver123@...> wrote:
> Kahlo, Frida 
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>  (fr#275;´dä kä´l#333;) , 1907?54, Mexican painter,
> b. Coyoacán. As a result of an accident at age 15,
> Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to
> painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her
> works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of
> pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her
> 143 paintings are self-portraits incorporating a
> personal symbolism complete with graphic anatomical
> references. She was also influenced by indigenous
> Mexican culture, aspects of which she portrayed in
> bright colors, with a mixture of realism and
> symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of
> the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married.
> Although Kahlo's work is sometimes classified as
> surrealist and she did exhibit several times with
> European surrealists, she herself disputed the
> label. Her preoccupation with female themes and the
> figurative candor with which she expressed them made
> her something of a feminist cult figure in the last
> decades of the 20th cent. Some of
>  her work is exhibited at the Frida Kahlo Museum,
> situated in her birthplace and subsequent home in
> suburban Mexico City.
> 
> PBS in San Francisco, recently aired "the Life &
> Times of Frida Kahlo", which is now available in
> DVD. Of interest to this researcher are the photos,
> and film of people, and places during her life
> time...which,  were also the times of some of our
> ancestors.
> 
> Helyn de Castaneda
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