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Frida Kahlo - Artist of Imagination & Emotion
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Frida Kahlo at a Glance
Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 ? July 13, 1954) born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was an internationally popular Mexican painter. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain and sexuality. Kahlo was married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.
Spotlight on Frida Kahlo's Diary
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/11/2009)
Frida Kahlo's diary, like her art, is painted in breathtakingly vivid colors. It covers her tumultuous last decade and encompasses love letters, political musings on Communism, and resplendent paintings. The paintings, peopled with mythic figures, self-portraits, and monsters, articulate Kahlo's fantastic visions. One drawing melds a procession of crying faces onto an intertwined couple surrounded by body parts, only to dissolve into a mass of roots and dendrites.
Films About Frida Kahlo
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Frida - Directed by Julie Taymor
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Frida Kahlo -A Ribbon Around A Bomb
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Great Women Artists - Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo (1983)
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Spotlight on Frida's Fiestas
Frida's Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo
Amazon Price: $24.75 (as of 07/11/2009)
In the tradition of the best-selling Monet's Table, Frida's Fiestas is a personal account in words and pictures of many important and happy events in the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and a scrapbook, assembled by her stepdaughter, of recipes for more than 100 dishes that Frida served to family and friends with her characteristic enthusiasm for all the pleasures of life.Full-color photographs.
Frida Kahlo Vids
Spotlight on Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
Amazon Price: $26.59 (as of 07/11/2009)
Frida Kahlo's extraordinary life and revolutionary art continue to bear fruit with two superb new books, coming quickly on the heels of Martha Zamora's acclaimed Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish ( LJ 1/91). Lowe's biography, the first in a promising new series on women artists, is a succinct, insightful profile of the Mexican painter, combining a biographical chapter with an extended discussion of the self-portraits that make up the core of her oeuvre. Without becoming mired in florid language, Lowe cogently describes the biographical contexts of individual paintings and draws our attention to Kahlo's frequent employment of pre-Columbian symbolism.
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Spotlight on The Women Artists Umbrella
Women Artists Umbrella
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 07/11/2009)
A classy and beautiful umbrella of the highest quality, with the delightful caricatures of Cassatt, O'Keeffe, Kahlo and Morisot on the canopy which opens to 42" wide.
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Lorina_Harris wrote...
I love Frida Kahlo's self-portraits! I have always found her work inspiring. I'm glad to know you've got such a great lens on her!
Love and Peace,
Lorina
Posted January 02, 2009
