Comments | friendly_crips: Frida Kahlo

sammason in friendly_crips

Frida Kahlo

Sep 23, 2011 10:43

I'm no art historian so I didn't know, until now, that Frida Kahlo had spinal injuries.

painting, the disabled person, conditions: injury, people: frida kahlo, the performer

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gunshotbeauty September 23 2011, 12:13:20 UTC

her pain and health issues were the inspiration behind a lot of her art like a lot of artists. she was a fascinating woman!

sammason September 28 2011, 10:32:31 UTC

Yes. It perhaps explains why self-portraits were such a big focus in her work.

yesididit September 23 2011, 17:52:34 UTC

from wikipedia ( ... )

sammason September 28 2011, 10:33:59 UTC

Wow, how interesting! Don't you just wish you had a time machine to collect cures for her pain from the future, then to visit her in the past and fix her pain?

eqfe September 23 2011, 19:41:12 UTC

I learned two things today, one that she had spinal injuries, and the second that "she was the most famous female painter of all time." I must admit, I enjoy her work, and saw a wonderful showing some years back in the Museum of the Bario in NYC.

sammason September 28 2011, 10:36:01 UTC

Did the 'most famous' label make sense to you? I found it a bit ridiculous. How on earth did that author measure fame? Still, I'm now thinking that I'd like to look around a gallery of Kahlo's work.

eqfe September 28 2011, 21:23:13 UTC

No it didn't. I think that she was more famous for being Diego Rivera's lover than for her own work, and as much as I really like his work he's not in my top 5 artists or anything.