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Title |
Diego and I. |
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Creator |
Kahlo, Frida (Mexican painter, 1907-1954) |
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Date |
1949 |
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Cultural Context |
Mexican
North American
Latin American |
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Style/Period |
Modern (styles and periods) |
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Subject |
Self-portraits
Portraits
Women
Men
Spouses
Couples
Heads (Anatomy)
Hairstyles
Eyes
Marriage
Crying
Pain |
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Description |
"An obsessive self-portraitist, Kahlo reveled in her distinctive features - heavy, continuous eyebrows, piercing gaze, shadowy mustache, small but ripe, cherry-red mouth, massive dark hair braided like a halo in the traditional Mexican style. Moreover, she set them off with the most striking emblems of her suffering: a thorn necklace, nails worn like beauty spots, her torso tightly harnessed and opened to reveal a spine in the form of a broken column, wild spider monkeys embraced in lieu of the children she could never have. For the self-portrait seen here, Kahlo added the likeness of Rivera to her own forehead, cradled in those dramatic eyebrows, its presence (complete with a Cyclopean third eye at the center of his own brow) suggesting a manic preoccupation with her husband at a time when he had taken up with a well-known Mexican actress. Here the weeping artist's hair swirls about her neck like the dark sea in which she felt herself drowning." (Excerpt, p.261) |
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People Pictured |
Kahlo, Frida
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957 |
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Material |
Oil on Masonite
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Paint
Masonite (TM) |
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Measurements |
11 5/8 x 8 13/16" |
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Technique |
Oil painting (technique)
Painting (image-making) |
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Inscription |
Upper right corner: México / Frida Kahlo / 1949 / Diego y y's [?] |
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Work Type |
Paintings
Oil paintings
Self-portraits
Portraits
Portrait paintings |
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Source |
Hunter, Sam, John Jacobus, and Daniel Wheeler. Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 3rd rev ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. (p.260, fig.467). |
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Rights |
Reproduced in Hunter courtesy Mary-Anne Martin/ Fine Art, New York; Hunter, Modern Art: Copyright © 2000 The Vendome Press, New York. Further, it should be noted that many of the art works reproduced in this volume are subject to claims of copyright in the United States and throughout the world, particularly for those artists represented by ADAGP and SPADEM, both located in Paris and exclusively represented in the United States by Artists Rights Society, New York. For other artists, mainly American, the copyright agent is VAGA, New York. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 442-08.jpg |
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Rating |
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