This is a difficult entry to write. Not because I do not like Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), but because I love all his work, so I do not know which to choose (what the French call "l'embarrass du choix").
Frida is complex, simple, interesting, exciting, personal, universal. His work reflects his life, his pain (caused by a bus accident that left him battered spine), its turbulent marriage to artist Diego Rivera, her communist ideals, his ideals on women, its dual tradition (European-Indian).
The work that I want to show today, The two Fridas , was painted in 1939 (now in the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico). In it we see the duality of Frida. On the one hand there is the Frida dressed in white, European, with that kind of Angola that covers the entire neck. On the other hand, the indigenous Frida, dressed in the Mexican, with a medallion bearing the image of her husband, Diego Rivera, in his hand.
work is a haunting, surreal. The European Frida takes a delicate silver scissors with which you have cut part of your veins (perhaps mention its many abortions? Or her husband's infidelities, among others, with her sister Cristina?). However, despite this double culture, the two Fridas are joined heart to heart by these disturbing veins running down his neck and curled in his arms. One of them, leaving the heart, it seems a hand he wants to stroke his face. The two Fridas are just one. Together by the hands and the blood.
In my opinion, one of the best expressions of the dual nature of many latinoamerican.
Frida Kahlo
promise more soon. Meanwhile, I recommend the Taschen book devoted to Frida Kahlo is very interesting, very well written, the pictures are in color and also found in any library (or in any bookstore at a great price). Seize the next Book Fair. It is a wonderful gift.
The full reference is: Andrea Kettenman, Kahlo (Taschen, 1999).
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