RASQACHEPEDIA: FRIDA KAHLO
Frida Kahlo, a goddess among men, a
woman whose life was so fully lived in both the scope of majesty and
travesty in such a short period that her life energy can still be felt
to this very day. She was the original Diva and a woman with true
friends around the world. Her paintings are free from genre and yet
steals from every style she pleased to, post-modern to surreal, and
the master of the portrait. Her uniqueness separated her from
humanity while attracting so much of it to her, eager to experience
the world through her eyes, but she forever belongs to her physical
and emotional deformities, and to a life that never could have been.
Frida was a master of turning pain into
beauty and she had so much pain to paint with. She suffered from polio
before puberty, a life threatening bus accident to welcome her into
adulthood, endless surgeries, a removed foot, and an endless
heartbreak at the hands of her own bravery to try to claim Diego
Rivera, a beast too wild to tame, for her own. The result was an autobiography of
paintings which depicted the details of her pain with childlike
playfulness and real-life intensity. Viewing her paintings is like
drifting through her dreams and nightmares, the dialogue we all have
in our heads, spoken in color.
Frida was also a woman who lived the
life she wanted to life, no matter what anyone said or thought of
her. Frida was a shear force of nature. She went and approached Diego
Rivera as a teenager, a larger than life personality, and seduced him
all the way into marriage. She made legions of women in the U.S.
jealous of her Mexican flair, celebrity lifestyle, and unbound
originality. She traveled through Europe having affairs with men and
women from across the art world and broadening her own vision as an
artist. With the help of an eclectic circle of friends, she pulled
off successful galleries in New York, Paris, and finally back in her
home, Mexico City, an opening she arrived to still in bed because she
was too weak to arrive any other way. With every tragedy in her way
and a life that was cut short, Frida still found a way to live the
life she wanted to live and lived it to the fullest at every moment,
no matter how much pain caved in on her.
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