FRIDA KAHLO

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FRIDA KAHLO (1907-54) became the most popular woman artist in history less than 40 years following her untimely death. Her body of work, some 200 paintings, forms a visual diary that documents her fascinating existence. Frida Kahlo, by renowned author Salomon Grimberg, provides an intriguing biography of Kahlo illustrated by a selection of over 90 of her paintings, as well as many rare photographs. Kahlo was born in the small town of Coyoacán, in the outskirts of Mexico City. At eighteen, following a bus accident that nearly killed her, she began to paint to pass the time. Kahlo said she suffered two accidents in her life:one that nearly destroyed her body; and one that nearly destroyed her heart (her marriage to artist Diego Rivera). The most famous man in Mexico, Rivera was a shameless philanderer. To please him Kahlo wore Mexican costumes and adornments, which enhanced her magnetic beauty. In her many self-portraits, Kahlo portrays herself costumed like an invented personage in a timeless predicament: obsessed, helpless, lonely and abandoned. But Kahlo was not innocent she flaunted her bisexuality, and among her lovers were photographer Nickolas Muray, statesman Leon Trotsky and actress Dolores del Rio. André Breton hailed her as a daughter of Surrealism, though she claimed she did not paint her dreams, only her reality. In Paris, the art world was swept off its feet by her presence and her art: Picasso sang to her, and the Louvre acquired one of her selfportraits. Her remarkable reputationcuts across the definitions of Mexican, Surrealist and Modern artists to feminist cult figure. But no amount of external success could replace Kahlo´s internal sense of failure and feelings of emptiness. Because of this deficit, Kahlo went through life in pain. Her last diary entry sums up her helplessness: «I await joyful my departure and I hopenever to come back.

9781572153233

GRIMBERG, SALOMON