Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
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Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
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Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
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Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Read about 20th century artist Frida Kahlo, and discover the conditions that led to her artistic creations and highly scrutinized life.
Any Harold and Maude fans present? The 1971 cult classic film is a sentimental favorite of mine. I got to thinking about it one day recently as I was doing my hair. You see, I was trying to remember how I got started doing my hair in a braided updo, which has been my style of choice in this muggy weather. (See my video tutorial for this style here.) And then I remembered - it was Maude's style I was trying to emulate! It's easy to see why I would have forgotten the original inspiration for this coif, as it spans many eras and cultures. I sometimes get teasing "Swiss Miss" comments when I wear my hair up in Heidi braids, seeing as this hairdo brings to mind yodeling in the Alps. My mother calls it my "fraulein" hair, another nod to its Euro roots. But then there's the glamorous Hollywood side of a braided updo: Casey did a great post on vintage up-dos that included Madelene Carrol's beautiful Heidi braids. But the reason I love Maude's version the best is that it encapsulates her character as a feisty bohemian. Maude is an eccentric, sexy, glamorous, smart, charming 79-year-old woman, and her hairdo manages to get all that across somehow. Jeff thinks it a little amusingly strange that I should have a geriatric style icon, but it makes perfect sense to me. I was also recently reminded by a yoga teacher that another one of my favorite women in history sported this hairdo: the excellent Frida Kahlo. (The teacher warned me not to grow a uni-brow to go with my braids. Indeed: I should be so lucky to pull off a uni-brow as Frida did!) This must have been another unconscious style inspiration for me, as I have long been a Frida Kahlo enthusiast. I spent a summer in Mexico City many years ago and I visited La Casa Azul once a week. I loved looking at the relics of her life - colorful dresses, skulls, religious tokens, and jewelry strewn everywhere. It must be said that Frida Kahlo goes down in history as the ultimate accessorizer of the Heidi Braids. Who else could pull off all those flowers right on top of one's head? (I can't seem to get the hang of it. Not for lack of trying, believe me.) And look at the ribbon woven throughout! Genius! It's sort of fascinating to make a connection between Maude and Frida: one fictional, one real - but both very off-beat, political, feminine, flamboyant, passionate, glamorous, tragic, and artistic. I think they make perfect style icons, don't you?
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
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Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
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images via and here, here I've recently finished reading Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel 'The Lacuna' and I didn't want it to end. As I reached the final chapters, I actually found myself slowing down, rationing out the pages in the same way that I might savour the last few mouthfuls of a slice of chocolate cake. For me this was a book of three parts. Something about the style and content of the first section reminded me of Paulo Coelho's, 'The Alchemist.' This was partly because the author constantly referred to the main protaganist as "the boy." Reading this section I impatiently anticipated the introduction of one of the more colourful characters that I knew were going to be part of the story; Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera or Lev Trotsky. I'd just got to thinking...'Ok enough of the back story...when do we meet one of them?' when 'the boy' meets 'the painter'. As the boy, Harrison Shepherd (or Insolito/Sol, to Frieda) was precipitated into the bustling kakofanie of 1930's Mexico and the Rivera household, I couldn't help make comparisons with Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Both books are set in Mexico at a similar time, and food and the kitchen play a significant part in their narrative. LWFC begins each chapter with a recipe, similarly Part 3 of The Lacuna opens with the directions for making empandas dulces with a sweet pineapple and star anise filling. Each have mouth watering descriptions of food preparation and made me really want to try out the recipes for myself. Most of Kingsolver's characters are totally self-absorbed, putting their art, politics and personal desires before those of others. I've always had a soft spot for Frieda Kahlo's melancholic personality, and "dark eyebrows joined in a handshake over the bridge of her nose" but despite this, the first person that I really warmed to was 'Bulls Eye' a young boy that Shepherd befriends in Washington. Then in 'Part 4, Asheville, North Carolina 1941-1947,' Violet Brown came on the scene and I loved her. VB was my heroin, she really made this story for me. In a time of prejudice and hatred this prim widow in her mid-forties with her white gloves and porcupine of knitting, was just ace. I liked the calmness of Harrison's home "...the house is still, keeping secrets. The floors are made of the long, narrow hearts of trees brought down from mountain slopes, the chimneys are stones rolled and round as biscuits in the Swannanoa River...The mitred oak doorsills are like deep wooden picture frames, each holding a perfect view of the next room, where the walls are touched with light, and life could be waiting." It's obvious that Kingsolver had researched everything thoroughly, from the life of the real characters, to Mexican history, American and Russian politics, popular culture, and a myriad of other things. The only bug bare for me was the inclusion of newspaper articles, diary entries and letters. I had the same problem when reading 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' which had a similar format. I'm happy to read them in biographies but in a novel I find it all a bit disjointed. I want the narrative to flow more smoothly...but I suppose that life is like that though, that's how our own stories unfold with lots of little messy bits... Definitely one to read...
"Her beliefs and lifestyle remain relevant today for her unapologetic freedom of expression."
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon around a bomb.” Here are some facts about the woman remembered as…
When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego passed three years later, a philanthropist, art collector and old friend of the couple, Dolores Olmedo became the manager of their houses. She kept all of Kahlo's belongings secretly guarded under lock
Frida Kahlo 1939 - Imagen Cortesía de Nickolas Muray Cuando uno profundiza en el conocimiento de la obra de Frida Kahlo y tiene el privilegio de conocer su hogar, se descubre la intensa relación que existe entre Frida, su obra y su casa. Su universo creativo se encuentra en la Casa Azul, sitio en el que nació y murió. Aunque al casarse con Diego Rivera vivió en distintos lugares en la Ciudad de México y en el extranjero, Frida siempre regresó a su casona de Coyoacán. Ubicada en la calle de Londres 247, en uno de los barrios más bellos y antiguos de la Ciudad de México, la Casa Azul fue convertida en museo en 1958, cuatro años después de la muerte de la pintora. Hoy es uno de los museos más concurridos en la capital mexicana: mensualmente recibe cerca de 25 mil visitantes, 70% de ellos extranjeros. La llamada Casa Azul Museo Frida Kahlo es el lugar donde los objetos personales revelan el universo íntimo de la artista latinoamericana más reconocida a nivel mundial. En esta casona se encuentran algunas obras importantes de la artista: Viva la Vida (1954), Frida y la cesárea (1931), Retrato de mi padre Wilhem Kahlo (1952), entre otras. En la recámara que Frida usaba de día permanece su cama con el espejo en el techo. Su madre lo mandó colocar después del accidente que Frida sufriera en el autobús, al regresar de la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. Durante la larga convalecencia que la mantuvo inmóvil por nueve meses y gracias al espejo donde se reflejaba, Frida pudo retratarse. En la cabecera de su cama permanecen los retratos de Lenin, Stalin y Mao Tse Tung; en el estudio se encuentra el caballete que le regalara Nelson Rockefeller, sus pinceles y sus libros; y en su recámara de noche se guardan la colección de mariposas, obsequio del escultor japonés Isamu Noguchi, además del retrato que le hiciera a Frida su amigo y amante, el fotógrafo Nickolas Muray. Cada objeto de la Casa Azul dice algo de la pintora: las muletas, los corsés y las medicinas son testimonios del sufrimiento de las múltiples operaciones a las que fue sometida. Los exvotos, juguetes, vestidos y joyas hablan de una Frida coleccionista. La casa misma habla de la vida cotidiana de la artista. Por ejemplo, la cocina –que es típica de las construcciones antiguas mexicanas, con sus ollas de barro colgadas a las paredes, y las cazuelas sobre el fogón- son testimonio de la variedad de guisos que se preparaban en la Casa Azul. Tanto Diego como Frida gustaban de agasajar a sus comensales con platillos de la cocina mexicana, prehispánica, colonial y popular. En su comedor convivieron grandes personalidades de la cultura y destacados artistas de la época: André Breton, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, León Trotsky, Juan O´Gorman, Carlos Pellicer, José Clemente Orozco, Isamu Noguchi, Nickolas Muray, Sergei Eisenstein, el Dr. Atl, Carmen Mondragón, Arcady Boytler, Rosa y Miguel Covarrubias, Aurora Reyes e Isabel Villaseñor, entre muchos otros. La Casa Azul se convirtió entonces en una síntesis del gusto de Frida y Diego, y de su admiración por el arte y la cultura mexicana. Ambos pintores coleccionaron piezas de arte popular con un gran sentido estético. En particular, Diego Rivera amaba el arte prehispánico. Muestra de ello es la decoración de los jardines y el interior de la Casa Azul, donde se muestran algunas piezas realmente bellas. El hogar de Frida se convirtió en museo porque tanto Kahlo como Rivera abrigaron la idea de donar al pueblo de México su obra y sus bienes. Diego pidió a Carlos Pellicer, poeta y museógrafo, que realizara el montaje para abrirlo al público como museo. Desde entonces, la atmósfera del lugar permanece como si Frida habitara en él. En la Casa Azul también vivió Diego Rivera por largas temporadas. El muralista acabó por comprar la casa, al pagar las hipotecas y deudas que Guillermo Kahlo había contraído. Este último había sido un fotógrafo relevante durante el Porfiriato, venido a menos después de la Revolución. Además, los múltiples gastos médicos generados por Frida después del accidente endeudaron a la familia. La casona, que data de 1904, no era un lugar de grandes dimensiones. Hoy tiene una construcción de 800 m2 y un terreno de 1200 m2. De acuerdo con la historiadora Beatriz Scharrer, el padre de Frida, Guillermo Kahlo -húngaro-alemán de nacimiento- construyó la casa a usanza de la época: un patio central con los cuartos rodeándolo, el exterior era totalmente afrancesado. Fueron Diego y Frida quienes, más tarde, le dieron un estilo muy particular y, al mismo tiempo, le imprimieron -con colores y decoración popular- su admiración por los pueblos de México. Beatriz Scharrer explica que, con el tiempo, la construcción sufrió algunas modificaciones: cuando el político ruso León Trotsky vivió con Diego y Frida en el año 1937, se tapiaron las paredes, los muros se pintaron de azul y se compró el predio de 1,040m2 que hoy ocupa el jardín, a fin de darle al intelectual soviético seguridad ante la persecución de que era objeto por parte de José Stalin. En 1946 Diego Rivera le pidió a Juan O’Gorman la construcción del estudio de Frida. Diego propuso utilizar materiales de la zona: piedra volcánica o basalto, representativo por haber sido utilizado por los aztecas para construir pirámides y tallar sus piezas ceremoniales. El estudio adquirió, además de un estilo funcionalista, un decorado con objetos de arte popular mexicano. En esta zona de la casa, Diego colocó los plafones con mosaicos y llenó las paredes de caracoles de mar y jarros empotrados con la boca al frente, para servir de palomares. Por Hilda Trujillo Soto Enlace al Álbum de Imágenes...
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