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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter active between 1925 and 1954. She began painting while bedridden due to a bus accident that left her seriously injured. Most of her work consists of self-portraits, which deal directly with her struggle with medical issues, infertility, and her troubeparate Frida on which to project her anguish and pain. [2]
Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress is described as: "Kahlo appears half length, wearing an elegant velvet dress, against a background of stylized waves. She presents herself as a comely young woman of the time, her hair neatly parted in the centre and combed into a chignon that highlights her oval face and symmetrical features.
Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1954 Frida in Flames (Self-Portrait Inside of a Sunflower) [15] Oil on canvas, mounted on wood, 23.8 x 32.4 cm [3] Private collection, United States [3] 1954 Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick: El Marxismo dará salud a los enfermos: Oil on masonite, 76 x 61 cm Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1954
The painting is now shown at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. [4] It was the only sale Kahlo made in her Paris exhibition. [5] Upon Kahlo's death in 1954, the New York Times stated that she was "said to have been the first woman artist to sell a picture to the Louvre." [3] [6]
This painting is the only image of an orchid in her artwork. [18] A horizon line cuts through the background of the painting, in the distance is Ford's River Rouge complex. [19] Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo had come to Detroit because Edsel Ford [20] had commissioned the Detroit Industry murals for the Detroit Institute of Arts. [11]
The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas in Spanish) is an oil painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The painting was the first large-scale work done by Kahlo and is considered one of her most notable paintings. [1] It is a double self-portrait, depicting two versions of Kahlo seated together.
The twofold face of the Universe, the light and dark background of planets and ethereal fog, is holding a murkier Earth (Mexico), whose breasts are lactating. The Earth (Mexico), with all her vegetation, is subsequently holding Frida Kahlo. Continuing further, Frida is then holding a nude Diego Rivera, whose forehead contains a third eye. This ...
It depicts Kahlo standing between two white curtains on a stage, holding a letter to Trotsky and a bouquet of flowers. [19] The letter reads "To Leon Trotsky with great affection, I dedicate this painting November 7, 1937. Frida Kahlo. In San Angel. Mexico."(Para Leon Trotsky con todo cariño, dedico esta pintura el dia 7 de Noviembre de 1937.