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Frida Kahlo: The life and work of a primitivist and an early postmodernist in the history of Mexican art and the history of female artists
Mexican artist. Primitivist. Consummate iconoclast. Lover of Diego Rivera and also a lesbian lover of women. A woman of a passionate, childish temperament who longed to have her own child but was systematically thwarted in her attempts. All of these descriptions sum up the works, loves, and lives of Frida Kahlo. ("Frida Kahlo: A Brief Biography," 2004) Yet this woman remained somewhat enigmatic to the rest of the world. As she herself noted in her brightly illustrated and copious diaries, she frequently painted self-portraits because she was so often alone and because she felt that she was the person she I knew best. (Falini, 2004, "Frida and her obsession of self-portraits.)
This obsessive isolation on the part of Kahlo, was partly self-imposed, because of what Kahlo viewed as her odd, even masculine appearance and her painful deformity, as the result of a freak bus accident and her early affliction with polio was a child. ("Frieda Kahlo: A Brief Biography,"...
Also, she never had the child she desired to bear for Diego Rivera / (Falini, 2004)
Still, despite her introverted temperament, Kahlo remained vitally connected to the pulsating artistic life of her time, including the political and social involvements of Diego Rivera as well as her own quest to create a new form of contemporary Mexican art that fused future and past into one. Still, she saw her art as both national and personal. "They thought I was a Surrealist but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality," the artist stated, in other words she painted her inner reality with all of its hope, glory, and fury in a national context. One of her most stunning works can be found in the depiction of herself in "Portrait on the Borderline…
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