Frida Kahlo
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A research of a story of a lost painting by Frida Kahlo
Resumen: En el presente estudio analizamos la vestimenta de la pintora mexicana Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), enfatizando en la ornamentación de sus vestidos y blusas bordadas, centradas en los rasgos propios de la mujer mexicana. A través de... more
, nació en Coyoacán el seis de julio del cero siete (1907) y fue una pintora y poetisa mexicana. Frida creció en la famosa Casa Azul en Coyoacán, junto a su papá Guillermo Kahlo. Alemán, nacionalizado mexicano y su mamá Matilde Calderón.... more
Exploring Frida Kahlo's iconic status and how consumer culture has diluted her art to merely just an aesthetic for shirts and room decor.
Esse livro faz uma análise do pensamento ocidental a partir das relações ambivalentes entre a religião e a liturgia cristã com o mundo da arte. Essas relações têm um histórico complexo, de amplas possibilidades, mas também de medos,... more
The article sheds light on attempts of Mexican left-wing artists to deepen relations with the Soviet Union cultural circles by developing personal and institutional ties as well as sending works to Soviet museums. Study of several cases... more
Frida's artworks represent Mexican folklore, national culture, and her passion for self-portraits, portraits, and still-life objects. Caught my attention her use of colors and her combination of elements in a few of her paints.
This blockbuster exhibition is the first to examine Frida Kahlo’s keen appreciation for the beauty and variety of the natural world, as evidenced by her home and garden as well as the complex use of plant imagery in her artwork. Featuring... more
Las ideas de Mariátegui sobre la literatura peruana y su poeta máximo: Vallejo. ¿Cómo veía Mariátegui la cultura latinoamericana?
This is a draft of my editor's foreword for Maurice Kenny's memoir _Angry Rain_, which was published by SUNY Press in 2018.The manuscript was complete upon Kenny's death in April 2016 and I performed the editorial work needed to get it... more
A review of a film about the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
Applying an intermedial and intercultural approach, this article analyses two essays about Mexico written by André Breton in 1938: “Frida Kahlo de Rivera” and “Memory of Mexico”. Both texts highlight a pictographic-scriptural surrealist... more
Aportaciones de la figura de la mujer en el arte mexicano.
This is a quick and short class unit to practice an analysis of Frida Kahlo's fashion in her paintings. The description of the art class is followed by further informations for the teacher. Just try and I am happy to help you out with an... more
This thesis is about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) and her works, with emphasis on her painted self-portraits. The objective is to place Frida Kahlo’s pictorial production in relation to a place and time specific context and... more
The dead woman’s passivity -and the inherent passivity of death- seems to increase her eroticism: Ophelia is immobile, “incapable of her own distress”, completely at the visual mercy of the viewer. Drowning, Ruth J. Owen observes, is... more
Resumen: El bodegón es un género artístico en el que se representan elementos generalmente inertes, destacando alimentos, flores y objetos. También conocido como «naturaleza muerta», renació a finales del siglo XVI, dentro de las áreas... more
Entry on Frida Kahlo: Pancho Villa y Adelita, in Frida Kahlo. Homenaje Nacional 1907-2007. Mexico City: Editorial RM; INBA, 2007, pp. 60-71. Spanish only.
Este artículo se detiene en el cuerpo de Pedro Lemebel y en su compleja relación con la enfermedad. Propone las múltiples maneras en que esta última funciona como potencia emancipadora que escinde con violencia los imperativos ligados a... more
This is an introduction to a Forum I edited on Queer Disability/Debility. The authors are academics and community-based activists/scholars, and each approaches the concepts of queerness and disability and/or debility differently. My... more
This thesis is about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) and her works, with emphasis on her painted self-portraits. The objective is to place Frida Kahlo’s pictorial production in relation to a place and time specific context and... more
This paper examines the representation of pain in Alvares de Azevedo and Frida Kahlo. Analyzing the poem "Adeus, meus sonhos” of Alvares de Azevedo and framework “Abrazos Amorosos” of Fridah Kahlo.