The original and intimate art of Mexico s most famous female painter The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907 54)were in many ways expressions of trauma.
This book introduces a rich body of Kahlo s work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture..
The artist described her paintings as the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
Many of her works also explore the Communist political ideals which Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera.
In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a hybrid surreal-real language of living: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes.
Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.
The original and intimate art of Mexico s most famous female painter The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907 54)were in many ways expressions of trauma
