![]() The Lumas artist Efren Isaza is a master of allusion. It was only in the 1970s', and then again in the 1990's, that Kahlo's legacy was lifted on successive waves of interest, seeing in her an anticolonial activist, a feminist artist, or a queer icon. Her lifetime of ailments sometimes kept her from traveling, or promoting her work in the way that Rivera was able to do for himself. This is why, for example, her works are often presented and understood alongside those of Diego Rivera, but also those of Salvador Dali.Īlthough according to some her work was more daring and more influential than that of her husband's, in her lifetime, Kahlo was overshadowed by Diego Rivera. What she intended as a way to bind her closer to the people paradoxically caused her to be unable to communicate the craft, revolutionary ideology, or well-consider aesthetics that went in to her work, and thus to control her legacy abroad. Kahlo always presented herself as a self-taught, naive artist, inspired and organically trained in her work by native Mexican culture. Her ability to articulate a strong proactive message for her art abroad was hampered, however, by her own branding as an artist. In its endless contemplation of European philosophical themes, it was the conflicted voice of the center, and did not have the potential to be the authentic voice of the periphery. Kahlo rode the wave of surrealist intrigue, but she herself saw surrealism as bourgeoise, and not suffieiciently radical. The French surrealist André Breton heralded Kahlo as an indigenous representative of surrealism. ![]() Her career was boosted by encounters with European surrealists, of whom she had a low opinion. ![]() Her fame, however, has distorted her personality, and her original purpose as an artist, an has led to fantastical interpretations of her life and work. Today, Rivera's and Kahlo's partnership is remembered today as a legendary tale of love and pain. Together with her husband and companion Diego Rivera, with whom she shared a tempestuous marriage, she was one of the drivers of modernist Mexican art. In her artistic vision she was both a magical realist and part of contemporary artistic currents which searched for indigenous cultural and philosophical foundations for a distinctly Mexican art. Over time, and with exposure to revolutionary currents in Mexican politics and to the philosophy and works of the European avant-garde, she began to develop her signature aesthetic.įrida's work came to synthesize Mexican popular culture with modernist art. At first, her main preoccupation were drawings and paintings were portraits of herself and those around her. It was during that time that she began to dedicate herself to painting. Years later, a bus accident would keep her at home for several months. Kahlo's artistic career began as a child in Mexico City, when she became a skilled at drawing and engraving. Kahlo is remembered as many things: a daughter of the Mexican revolution, an icon whose beauty and style was itself an act of anticolonial protest, a master of the self-portrait, and a forerunner of the contemporary ideal of the modern women - powerful, visionary, and unapolagetically free. Today, Frida Kahlo's paintings, drawings, and portraits can be visited in amny musuems around the world.
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