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This gown, from one of Kahlo’s long hospital stays, is stained with both paint and [content note:] blood. It is a garment that portrays a very different image than the technicolor Tehuantepec dresses that were the artist’s signature style in public. [getty.edu]
Frida & Trotsky ascend (2002), TikTok (Sotheby's), Museo Frida Kahlo
previously: a ribbon around a bomb, LINEAGE BEGINS WITH THE AZTECS
"La Catrina has been iterated over time," [San Francisco's Mexican Museum curator David de la Torre] said. "It's not just [José Guadalupe] Posada and his work in 1910. There are layers of history." …an amazing time in history, features “La Catrina in [Diego Rivera’]s iconic mural, Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central {Bronx Museum, via Google Arts & Culture} (Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central), where she links arms with a likeness of her creator, José Guadalupe Posada, opposite Rivera himself as a child and Frida Kahlo, among many others...", Kahlo was a Marxist and member of the Mexican Communist Party - I suspect she'd find "brand builder" a repugnant label, eyebrows that would make Frida Kahlo jealous, “send me 💐” might return Yasumasa Morimura’s An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns) “i think we broke it", Dalí/nsfw (links to an exhibit that may mirror the above; link’s broken), beyond 5 women artists, expressions in the 1930s photos- I can't help but think of what was about to happen to the world, “They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” (link out), [Tina] Modotti had an affair with Diego Rivera and later introduced him to Frida Kahlo in 1927, - the same year she joined the Partido Comunista. The following year Rivera painted The Arsenal where he portrayed the love, the activist known as Frida Kahlo, painting is not only a work of art, it is also an historical document, 300 dresses -- compete with paint stains and lingering cigarette smells,
that earned her a photo shoot with Vogue magazine in 1937,
La Llorona her tribute to Frida Kahlo, self-reflecting, Could you maybe add a "losangeles" tag?, the portable shrine concept (with LED candles!), Not Dali But An Incredible Simulation, together they have developed (and continue to perform) the long-running Difficult Women, a cabaret theater show, Leonora Carrington "the last surrealist", dollhouse, take back halloween, Somehow, this post won't feel complete without A Room Of One's Own, this is not your grandmother's crafting web site, Maria de los Remedios Varo Uranga: Her paintings combine the surrealist love of the mystical and unconscious with a delicate sense of the mechanical, la real Frida, "I have had two accidents in my life - the streetcar crash and Diego Rivera", Blake Leyh Sound designer for such films as The Abyss; Frida; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Y Tu Mama Tambien, and many others has a music blog, Pain and suffering are common themes in her work
keyword in html: At least punk's not dead, right?
Frida & Trotsky ascend (2002), TikTok (Sotheby's), Museo Frida Kahlo
previously: a ribbon around a bomb, LINEAGE BEGINS WITH THE AZTECS
"La Catrina has been iterated over time," [San Francisco's Mexican Museum curator David de la Torre] said. "It's not just [José Guadalupe] Posada and his work in 1910. There are layers of history." …an amazing time in history, features “La Catrina in [Diego Rivera’]s iconic mural, Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central {Bronx Museum, via Google Arts & Culture} (Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central), where she links arms with a likeness of her creator, José Guadalupe Posada, opposite Rivera himself as a child and Frida Kahlo, among many others...", Kahlo was a Marxist and member of the Mexican Communist Party - I suspect she'd find "brand builder" a repugnant label, eyebrows that would make Frida Kahlo jealous, “send me 💐” might return Yasumasa Morimura’s An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns) “i think we broke it", Dalí/nsfw (links to an exhibit that may mirror the above; link’s broken), beyond 5 women artists, expressions in the 1930s photos- I can't help but think of what was about to happen to the world, “They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” (link out), [Tina] Modotti had an affair with Diego Rivera and later introduced him to Frida Kahlo in 1927, - the same year she joined the Partido Comunista. The following year Rivera painted The Arsenal where he portrayed the love, the activist known as Frida Kahlo, painting is not only a work of art, it is also an historical document, 300 dresses -- compete with paint stains and lingering cigarette smells,
that earned her a photo shoot with Vogue magazine in 1937,
La Llorona her tribute to Frida Kahlo, self-reflecting, Could you maybe add a "losangeles" tag?, the portable shrine concept (with LED candles!), Not Dali But An Incredible Simulation, together they have developed (and continue to perform) the long-running Difficult Women, a cabaret theater show, Leonora Carrington "the last surrealist", dollhouse, take back halloween, Somehow, this post won't feel complete without A Room Of One's Own, this is not your grandmother's crafting web site, Maria de los Remedios Varo Uranga: Her paintings combine the surrealist love of the mystical and unconscious with a delicate sense of the mechanical, la real Frida, "I have had two accidents in my life - the streetcar crash and Diego Rivera", Blake Leyh Sound designer for such films as The Abyss; Frida; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Y Tu Mama Tambien, and many others has a music blog, Pain and suffering are common themes in her work
keyword in html: At least punk's not dead, right?
there's another recent biopic on pbs, Becoming Frida Kahlo. recommended. it's similarly behind a paywall now unfortunately. the website has photos though & some previews (it's a multi-part series)
posted by HearHere at 7:16 AM on June 1
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