The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways
expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the
age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and
childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary
art. In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out
at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a
passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her
experience into a hybrid real-surreal language of living: hair,
roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her
works also explore the Communist political ideals which Kahlo
shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her
paintings as "the most sincere and real thing that I could do in
order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself." This
book introduces the rich body of Kahlo's work to explore her
unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a
painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.
About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has
evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed
chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist,
covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise
biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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