ARTH 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Luther Burbank
14 Nov 2016
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Tendency to read biography into her work -- painted self-portraits, was in a physically/ psychically traumatic bus accident. Tendency to read her work simply as biographical -- though work was political and socially engaged. Nationalistic -- mexican identity and mexican culture as central within her work. Difficult to not read biography into her work -> explicit references to pain and herself. Kahlo and diego rivera [muralist] received international recognition for their work in mexico and the us. Met in 1928, married and remarried multiple times. Relationship has informed the readings of her work and the way she was wirrten about in scholarship. Referenced that marriage and the pain experienced within the relationship within her paintings. Based heir art on the indigenous history and culture of mexico before. Person as political -- self-portraits that reference physical and psychic pain, often referencing cultural/ political identity and mexican history.
