Die faszinierenden Bilder von Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) waren in vielerlei Hinsicht Ausdruck ihrer Traumata. Ein fast tödlicher Unfall mit 18, gesundheitliche Probleme, eine turbulente Ehe, Fehlgeburten und Kinderlosigkeit: Die Malerin verwandelte ihre persönlichen Schicksalsschläge in revolutionäre Kunst.§ In ihren Selbstporträts blickt Kahlo den Betrachter mutig und herausfordernd an. Sie lehnte es ab, die Rolle des passiven Opfers einzunehmen, und verarbeitete stattdessen ihre Erfahrungen zu einer hybriden surreal-realen Sprache des Lebens, bestehend aus Haaren, Wurzeln, Adern,...
Die faszinierenden Bilder von Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) waren in vielerlei Hinsicht Ausdruck ihrer Traumata. Ein fast tödlicher Unfall mit 18, gesund...
Pain and passion: The original and intimate art of Mexico s most famous female painter The arresting pictures ofFrida Kahlo (1907 54)were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, shetransformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.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 ahybrid surreal-real language of living hair,...
Pain and passion: The original and intimate art of Mexico s most famous female painter The arresting pictures ofFrida Kahlo (1907 54)were in many ways...
Rebel with a cause: A revolutionary spirit in modern art Diego Rivera (1886 1957)is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo, advocate and adversary of Stalin s Soviet Union, and liberator and traitor of Leon Trotsky.Vibrant, graphic, and often monumental, Rivera s paintings carry the same live political and passionate charge as his personal biography. Fusing European influences such as Cubism with a socialist ideology and anexaltation of Mexico s indigenous and popular...
Rebel with a cause: A revolutionary spirit in modern art Diego Rivera (1886 1957)is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political...