Frida as Muse Works by Magdalena Carmen Frida

Frida as Muse! Works by Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon Facilitators: Linda Mangual and Marlon Zuniga October 2017

Frida Kahlo Self Portraits Frida Kahlo, Mexico’s greatest female artist, painted brutally honest self portraits that reveal her psychological response to adversity. Born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan of a German father and a Spanish mother, she began painting after a tragic bus accident to relieve boredom during her convalescence. Her body of work includes approximately 200 paintings of which 55 are self-portraits, and many depicted her turbulent relationship with her famous Mexican husband artist, Diego Rivera. Her work was primarily influenced by Mexican culture and included symbolic imagery such as the monkey. In Mexican mythology, monkeys are symbols of lust, yet she portrayed them as tender and protective symbols.

Diego Rivera

Retablos A retablo in Mexican folk art (also called lamina) is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folded art form using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. A Peruvian retablo is a sophisticated Andean folded art form of portable boxes which depict religious, historical, or everyday events that are important to the indigenous people of the highlands of Peru and Bolivia.

Mexican Retablo

Peruvian Retablo

Contemporary Retablo

Frida Kahlo Quotes: I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? I love you more than my own skin. I am my own muse, the subject I know best. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Most Important Works Frieda and Diego Rivera (1931) My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree) (1936) Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) Fulan-chang and I (1937) (assembled after 1939) The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas) (1939) Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) Weeping Coconuts (Cocos gimientes) (1951)

Resources: http: //www. theartstory. org/artist-kahlo-frida. htm https: //www. sfmoma. org/watch/frida-kahlosevolution/ https: //www. google. com/culturalinstitute/beta/part ner/museo-frida-kahlo http: //www. fridakahlo. org/

Bibliography The art story modern art insight. (2017, May 15). Retrieved from http: //www. theartstory. org/artist-kahlofrida. htm Mexican retablos. (2017, May 15). Retrieved from http: //www. mexicanretablos. com/. Frida Kahlo. (2017, May 15). Retrieved from http: //www. fridakahlo. org/