Her powerful message, which cannot be silenced, still resonates with people today. Despite multiple contradictions, Frida’s indefinable nature and bold voice continue to captivate and inspire us. Her life was a remarkable work of art, just like her paintings. Her story is captivating and thrilling, filled with unique strength born from suffering. A car accident at 18 left her with a shattered bone and 32 operations. She suffered from polio when she was 6 years old. Recognized as the representative of the avant-garde art of Mexico in the 20th century and the modern female artist, she created 143 works in her lifetime, 55 of which are self-portraits.īut her life was not smooth.
Her composition Viva La Vida was used as a song title by the music band Coldplay.ĭoes she sound familiar to you now? She is Frida Kahlo. Her fans span the continents of Latin America and Europe. Her works of art have been displayed in prestigious museums like the Louvre, and even the famous artist Picasso admitted that his work was inferior to hers after seeing one of her self-portraits. Her head portrait is printed on the back of the Mexican peso. She is a fashion icon that the famous singer Madonna adores and often imitates. She is an artist with a braid of flowers on her head who appeared four times in the famous Mexican movie Coco. She is the woman with the thick unibrow across her forehead in her self-portraits. She is a legendary and respected artist we will focus on from this moment. Today we will unlock Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. Product Dimensions - 6.12 W x 9.18 H x 1.Hi, welcome to Bookey.
San Francisco ChronicleHailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences- her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution- a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children, her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, her association with the Communist Party, her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture, and her dramatic love of spectacle.Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman - with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human. Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon.
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