Frida Kahlo and artworks E-Book

Gerry Souter

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 59

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he was an obsessive womanizer, the great painter Diego Rivera was by her side. She won him over with her charm, talent and intelligence, and Kahlo learnt to lean on the success of her companion in order to explore the world, thus creating her own legacy whilst finding herself surrounded by a close-knit group of friends. Her personal life was turbulent, as she frequently left her relationship with Diego to one side whilst she cultivated her own bisexual relationships. Despite this, Frida and Diego managed to save their frayed relationship. The story and the paintings that Frida left us display a courageous account of a woman constantly on a search of self discovery.

Leseprobe

Gerry Souter

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ISBN: 978-1-78160-853-1

Contents

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A

A Few Small Nips, 1935

B

Basket of Flowers, 1941

Between the Curtains or Self-Portrait dedicated to Leon Trotsky, 1937

C

Coconut Tears (Crying Coconut), 1951

Coconuts (Glances), 1951

Congress of People For Peace, 1952

D

Diego and I, 1949

E

Ex voto, c.1943

F

Fantasy I, 1944

Four Inhabitants of Mexico City, 1937

Framed Self-Portrait “The Frame”, c.1938

Frida and Diego Rivera or Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, 1931

Frida and the Abortion or The Abortion, 1932

Frida and the Caesarean Section, 1932

Frida Kahlo at the age of 18, 1926

Fruits of Life, 1953

Fruits of the Earth, 1938

Fulang Chang and I, 1937

G

Girasoles (Sunflowers), Diego Rivera, 1943

Girl in Diaper (Portrait of Isolda Pinedo Kahlo), 1929

Girl with Death Mask, 1938

H

Henry Ford Hospital or The Flying Bed, 1932

M

Magnolias, 1945

Me and My Parrots, 1941

Memory or The Heart, 1937

Modesta, Diego Rivera, 1937

Moses or Nucleus of Creation, 1945

Moving Still Life, 1952

My Birth, 1932

My Dress Hangs There or New York, 1933

My Grandparents, My Parents and I, 1936

My Nanny and I, 1937

N

Nude of Eva Frederick, 1931

Nude of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, 1930

O

October, 1952

P

“Pinté de 1916”, The first illustration in the diary which Frida kept from 1946-1954

Page from her diary (1946-1954) showing the artist’s personal conflict in Moon, Sun, I?

Page from the diary of Frida Kahlo, 1953

Page from the diary of Frida Kahlo, 1953

Page from the diary of Frida Kahlo, 1953

Page from the diary of Frida Kahlo, 1953

Paisaje con cactus (Landscape with Cactus), Diego Rivera, 1931

Pancho Villa and Adelita, c.1927

Portrait of a Lady in White, c.1929

Portrait of Alejandro Gómez Arias, 1928

Portrait of Alicia Galant, 1927

Portrait of Diego Rivera, 1937

Portrait of Doña Rosita Morillo, 1944

Portrait of Dr. Leo Eloesser, 1931

Portrait of Eva Frederick, 1931

Portrait of Lady Cristina Hastings, 1931

Portrait of Lucha Maria, a Girl from Tehuacán, (Sun and Moon), 1942

Portrait of Luther Burbank, 1931

Portrait of Miguel N. Lira, 1927

Portrait of My Father, 1951

Portrait of My Sister Cristina, 1928

Portrait of Virginia, 1929

R

Retrato de la Señora Natasha Gelman (Portrait of Mrs Natasha Gelman), Diego Rivera, 1943

Retrato de la Señora Natasha Gelman (Portrait of Mrs Natasha Gelman), Diego Rivera, 1943

Roots or The Pedregal, 1943

S

Saint Nicholas, 1932, dated 1937

Self-Portrait (standing) along the Border between Mexico and the United States

Self-Portrait ‘9th July 1932’, 1932

Self-Portrait “Time Flies”, 1929

Self-Portrait as a Tehuana or Diego on My Mind, 1943

Self-Portrait dedicated to Dr. Eloesser, 1940

Self-Portrait dedicated to Marte R. Gómez, 1946

Self-Portrait dedicated to Sigmand Firestone, 1940

Self-Portrait Sitting on the Bed or My Doll and I, 1937

Self-Portrait with “Bonito”, 1942

Self-Portrait with Braid, 1941

Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1940

Self-Portrait with Hair Down, 1947

Self-Portrait with Iztcuintli Dog, c.1939

Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot, 1942

Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938

Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1940

Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1943

Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1945

Self-Portrait with Necklace, 1933

Self-Portrait with Necklace, 1933

Self-Portrait with Red and Gold Dress, 1941

Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Dr. Farill, 1951

Self-Portrait with Thorny Necklace, 1940

Self-Portrait with Velvet Dress, 1926

Self-Portrait, 1930

Self-Portrait, 1948

Self-Portrait, Diego Rivera, 1949

Still Life dedicated to Samuel Fastlicht, “Painted with All My Love”, 1952

Still Life with Parrot and Flag, 1951

Still Life with Pitahayas, 1938

Still Life, 1942

Still Life: Viva la Vida (Long Live Life), c.1951-1954

Study of the Portrait of Luther Burbank, 1931

Sun and Life, 1947

T

The Accident, 1926

The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened, 1943

The Broken Column, 1944

The Bus, 1929

The Chick, 1945

The Circle, 1951

The Deceased Dimas Rosas at the Age of Three, 1937

The Dream or Self-Portrait Dreaming, 1932

The Dream or The Bed, 1940

The Flower of Life, 1943

The Love Embrace of the Universe, The Earth (Mexico), I, Diego and Señor Xólotl, 1949

The Mask, 1945

The Sky, the Earth, Diego and I, 1949

The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, 1938-1939

The Two Fridas, 1939

The Wounded Deer (The Little Deer), 1946

Thinking about Death, 1943

Tree of Hope, Keep Strong, 1946

Tunas (Still Life with Prickly Pear Fruit), 1938

Two Nudes in the Wood or The Earth or My Nanny and I, 1939

U

Untitled (Drawing with Cataclysmic Theme), 1946

Untitled (Drawing with Subject inspired by Eastern Philosophy), 1946

V

Vendedora de alcatraces (Calla lily vendor), Diego Rivera, 1943

W

What the Water Gave Me, 1938

Window Display in a Street in Detroit, 1931

Without Hope, 1945

‘I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.’

Self-Portrait with Necklace, 1933

Oil on metal, 34.5 x 29.5 cm. Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico City

Biography

1907:

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo is born July 6, in la Casa Azul in Coyoacán, Mexico, daughter of a German, Wilheim Kahlo, and Mathilde Calderón.

1910:

Beginning of the Mexican revolution which overthrows Porfirio Diaz. Kahlo adopted this year as that of her birthday, in line with a new Mexico. Considered an accessory by her father who thought of her as a substitute for a son, she became his assistant in his photograph studio.

1916:

Polio leaves her right leg handicapped.

1921:

The Mexican government orders a large mural from Diego Rivera – returned to the country after fourteen years spent in Europe – to be sent to the National Preparatory School.

1923:

Frida Kahlo enters the National Preparatory School, reserved for the Mexican elite. She is one of thirty-five girls in an enrollment of two thousand pupils. She secretly admires Diego Rivera’s painting La Création.

1925:

Frida Kahlo suffers a very serious accident. The bus carrying her is involved in a collision with a tramway. She suffers numerous fractures and internal lesions. She must remain confined to her bed, and begins to paint. Through painting, she expresses the struggle of her existence.

1928:

Frida becomes a member of the Mexican Communist Party. She meets Diego Rivera.

1929:

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera marry August 21.

1930:

Frida Kahlo has a miscarriage in Detroit where Diego Rivera is making a fresco for the Institute of Art before working at the Rockfeller Center in New York. In September, her mother dies.

1934: