‘A ribbon around a bomb’
July 6, 2023 3:48 PM Subscribe
All this, and still Kahlo led much of her life in her bedroom, alone. “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.” Frida Kahlo was born today in 1907. A brief biographical animation.
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and… More flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”
Frida Kahlo’s Construction of Identity: Disability, Ethnicity, and Dress “For example, in a drawing inscribed Appearances can be Deceiving (below), Kahlo depicts her fractured body hidden beneath a transparent skirt, blouse and rebozo, covering and uncovering perhaps her greatest creation: herself.
Placing disability at the forefront of my interpretation of Kahlo's personal style provokes questions about disability as part of human experience, its relationship to fashion, dress, femininity, and identity.”
Frida Kahlo’s Construction of Identity: Disability, Ethnicity, and Dress “For example, in a drawing inscribed Appearances can be Deceiving (below), Kahlo depicts her fractured body hidden beneath a transparent skirt, blouse and rebozo, covering and uncovering perhaps her greatest creation: herself.
Placing disability at the forefront of my interpretation of Kahlo's personal style provokes questions about disability as part of human experience, its relationship to fashion, dress, femininity, and identity.”
Amazing. Thank you for sharing this!
posted by Doleful Creature at 4:48 PM on July 6, 2023
posted by Doleful Creature at 4:48 PM on July 6, 2023
Oh my god, Frida Kahlo is Ana Ng.
What I wouldn't have given to walk in her majestic presence.
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:03 PM on July 6, 2023 [5 favorites]
What I wouldn't have given to walk in her majestic presence.
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:03 PM on July 6, 2023 [5 favorites]
https://macleans.ca/culture/arts/this-canadian-teenager-wrote-your-favourite-frida-kahlo-quote/
posted by ZaphodB at 8:17 PM on July 6, 2023 [24 favorites]
posted by ZaphodB at 8:17 PM on July 6, 2023 [24 favorites]
I daresay many will already have seen it, but I only recently learned about the 1933 article on Kahlo entitled “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”.
posted by misteraitch at 1:24 AM on July 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by misteraitch at 1:24 AM on July 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”
The Munkácsi portrait of Kahlo and Rivera is among my favorite works of art in any medium.
posted by Literaryhero at 1:47 AM on July 7, 2023 [5 favorites]
The Munkácsi portrait of Kahlo and Rivera is among my favorite works of art in any medium.
posted by Literaryhero at 1:47 AM on July 7, 2023 [5 favorites]
Whoa. I knew she had a lot of physical issues but had no idea about the extent of injuries from that bus crash at 18 yrs (not to mention the polio). Horrific. She made so much of her (tragically short) life.
Also, that is crazy about the mis-attributed quote. I've seen enough of those that I try to be skeptical of "famous quotes" generally.
posted by Glinn at 8:41 AM on July 7, 2023
Also, that is crazy about the mis-attributed quote. I've seen enough of those that I try to be skeptical of "famous quotes" generally.
posted by Glinn at 8:41 AM on July 7, 2023
Kahlo is just such a huge cultural product at this point, it's really great and valuable to see her explicitly contextualized and remembered through the lens of disability (and fashion/decoration/identity!). I propose another lens from which we should view Frieda Kahlo: She was a communist. It's not just a quaint piece of trivia that she fucked Trotsky; she had an ideological commitment to revolutionary communism. Frieda Kahlo was a communist! Say it out loud every time you see a Kahlo tote bag or plushie.
posted by latkes at 9:52 AM on July 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by latkes at 9:52 AM on July 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
https://macleans.ca/culture/arts/this-canadian-teenager-wrote-your-favourite-frida-kahlo-quote/
Oh my god, Rebecca Martin is Ana Ng.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:50 AM on July 7, 2023
Oh my god, Rebecca Martin is Ana Ng.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:50 AM on July 7, 2023
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Oh my god, Frida Kahlo is Ana Ng.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 3:59 PM on July 6, 2023 [11 favorites]