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This work is named Self with Monkey (1938) and has its own story:
A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a friend of Frida attended the first exhibition of her in the Levy Gallery in New York in October 1938. I wanted to purchase one of the portraits entitled Fulang Chang and I , but as the work was already separated for another person, Frida prepared in a week a new self-portrait: Self-Portrait with Monkey.
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One third of the work of Frida Kahlo are self-portraits, made about 55, so she explained her tendency to portray himself as follows: "I I paint myself because I am We often alone and because I'm the person you know best. "
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SYMBOLS: Plants and trees: In this self is represented wild nature and wilderness, much different an atmosphere of peace, perhaps because they were an inspiration free but a commissioned work, something done under pressure.
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Mono: Exotic animals such as parrots, cats, monkeys and deer, living La Casa Azul in Coyoacán, where Frida was born and lived with Diego Rivera from 1929 to 1954. These were the pets of Frida and motifs present in almost all his paintings. Possibly these animals were used to comfort the lonely and the frustrated desire to have children Frida.
To Andrea Kettenmann self-portraits " ... helped her get an idea of \u200b\u200bhis own person and re-create in art as in life, in order to find a new identity. This could clarify what the differences so minimal accuse self-portraits. almost always with the same face mask, which hardly suggests expressions of feelings or moods, the artist looks straight at the viewer. His eyes covered by dark eyebrows, surprisingly strong, which together on the birth of the nose as bird wings, impressive for their expressiveness. "
In 1938 the Surrealist poet and essayist André Breton describes his surreal work of a trial writes for the Kahlo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. However, she later states: "They thought I was a Surrealist, but it was not. I never painted my dreams. I painted my own reality."
En 1939 expone en París en la galería Renón et Collea gracias a Breton. Su estancia en la capital francesa la llevó a relacionarse con Picasso y a aparecer en la portada del VOGUE francés. Por entonces Frida era conocida en el mundo entero. Hoy por hoy, Frida es un icono, siendo especialmente su forma de vestir (su esposo Diego Rivera le sugirió a que vistiera con el traje tradicional mexicano consistente en largos vestidos de colores y joyería exótica) es todo un referente en el mundo de la moda actual, tomada as inspiration for various publishers:
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Article published in Vogue Germany in its March issue. Claudia Schiffer metamorphosed into the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo by Karl Lagerfeld , photographer of the session:
The model Maria Carla Boscono for Harpers Bazaar U.S. November edition of 2001.Fotografía Nathaniel Goldberg.
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Editorial para la magazine Dujor:
And some weird stuff, as this photo of Trek Thunder Kelly for Calvin Klein:
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Frida Kahlo, has not only served as a theme for fashion editorials, but also for the production of films and documentaries , and not to mention the countless books about her and her art:
Title: Naturaleza Viva . Produced by: World-wide Clasa Films (1984)
Google Tribute to Frida
died Frida Kahlo in Coyoacan, in the Blue House on 13 July 1954.
His last words in his diary were: " I hope that the march be happy and I hope not back."
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