Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939 Didn’t classify herself as a surrealist, although Andrew Breton tried to claim her as such; she said that she didn’t paint from dreams, and that she painted her own reality.   She manipulates reality to reflect an inner psychological state Married to Diego Rivera, another Spanish painter, and post humorously is more famous than he is The two Fridas are a European Frida and Mexican Frida, and she said Diego only loved one of them  Frida and Diego tried to create paintings that were very much reflective of their Mexican nationality, but also engaged the international language of modernism  The Two Fridas have two different hearts, but are connected by the same artery; another artery is being clamped by the left Frida – a sharing of blood.

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939

  • Didn’t classify herself as a surrealist, although Andrew Breton tried to claim her as such; she said that she didn’t paint from dreams, and that she painted her own reality.  
  • She manipulates reality to reflect an inner psychological state
  • Married to Diego Rivera, another Spanish painter, and post humorously is more famous than he is
  • The two Fridas are a European Frida and Mexican Frida, and she said Diego only loved one of them 
  • Frida and Diego tried to create paintings that were very much reflective of their Mexican nationality, but also engaged the international language of modernism 
  • The Two Fridas have two different hearts, but are connected by the same artery; another artery is being clamped by the left Frida – a sharing of blood.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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