Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, 1943. Oil on hardboard
(Recreation) Rumination
Frida Kahlo's self-portrait painting involves, Diego Rivera, whom she had divorced due to his many affairs. She hated him for this betrayal, yet she could not stop thinking about him, and she painted a small portrait of him on her brow, expressing her frustration revolving around Diego. My recreation portrays a past version of myself and the negative qualities that I want to improve upon.
"Frida Kahlo’s exhaustively documented crossover from artist to pop culture icon isn’t happenstance. The painter meticulously crafted her own image on a par with Cleopatra. If she were alive today, she’d probably be teaching a branding class at Harvard. Now it’s America’s turn to see how, and, more important, why she did it," (Kleinman 2019).
"A mastermind at using fashion to her advantage, Kahlo delivered red-carpet moments wherever she went. “She even dressed that way to work in her studio,” Ms. Small said. Her ethnic ensembles, famously inspired by Oaxaca’s Tehuana, a matriarchal society, dismissed de rigueur looks dictated by Parisian designers and the soulless mass production of clothing," (Kleinman 2019).
Citation:
Kleinman, Rebecca. “Frida Kahlo Was a Painter, a Brand Builder, a Survivor. and so Much More.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 31 Jan. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/arts/design/frida-kahlo-booklyn-museum.html.
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