“I have never painted dreams. I have just painted my reality”
Artist, communist party activist, friend, wife and lover of the great mural painter Diego Rivera. Admired by Weston, Duchamp, Max Ernst, Picasso, André Breton, Pablo Neruda, Kandinsky, Mirò. Courted and frequented by Lev Trotsky, Henry Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, Paulette Goddard, Dolores de Rio, Isamu Noguchi.
Frida Kahlo, a splendid and eccentric woman whose art abounds in ferocity and grace and disturbs us with the intellectual sarcasm that accompanies her terrorist warmth, became a feminine legend in the Nineties. It was one exhibition after another, and films were made about her life and her political passion, love and suffering.
Her unusual magnetic beauty, her elegance, her highly personal way of dressing, her jewellery, made her an idol on the international glamour scene.
Her joys, her pains, her memories, her life, her illness, her death, her cry of Viva la Vida are represented in all her paintings, but especially in her self-portraits.
The photographs in this exhibition illustrate her life through the portraits that photographers – friends and strangers, famous and unknown – have produced of her.
FRIDA KAHLO
45 portraits
photographs by:
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Lucienne Bloch
Imogen Cunningham
Gisele Freund
Hector Garcia
Fritz Henle
Peter Juley
Antonio Kahlo
Guillermo Kahlo
Brothers Mayo
Leo Matiz
Emmy Lou Packard
Bernard Silberstain
“I have never painted dreams. I have just painted my reality”
Artist, communist party activist, friend, wife and lover of the great mural painter Diego Rivera. Admired by Weston, Duchamp, Max Ernst, Picasso, André Breton, Pablo Neruda, Kandinsky, Mirò. Courted and frequented by Lev Trotsky, Henry Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, Paulette Goddard, Dolores de Rio, Isamu Noguchi.
Frida Kahlo, a splendid and eccentric woman whose art abounds in ferocity and grace and disturbs us with the intellectual sarcasm that accompanies her terrorist warmth, became a feminine legend in the Nineties. It was one exhibition after another, and films were made about her life and her political passion, love and suffering.
Her unusual magnetic beauty, her elegance, her highly personal way of dressing, her jewellery, made her an idol on the international glamour scene.
Her joys, her pains, her memories, her life, her illness, her death, her cry of Viva la Vida are represented in all her paintings, but especially in her self-portraits.
The photographs in this exhibition illustrate her life through the portraits that photographers – friends and strangers, famous and unknown – have produced of her.