06.02.2016 | 18:22
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One could argue that about Frida Kahlo everybody knows everything. Reproductions of her paintings replicated by millions, and its picture – is an autobiography. Frida Kahlo did not hide anything from your life. Therefore, a retrospective exhibition of Mexican artist in St. Petersburg for those who have turned eighteen. It will run for three months, so, of course, see it not only St. Petersburg, and yet not all who wish. Tell you a little more about the work of Frida.
Self
“I write myself because I spend a lot of time alone, and because it is the one subject that I know best.” For the bedridden girl of eighteen father fashioned a special easel and hung a mirror over the bed to the budding artist wrote to nature, which is always there. And Frida Kahlo painted all his life itself – with a bleeding heart, a never-born child with a broken spine … Self-portrait of Frida became the main genre, but the main plot -. She
pain
“There is no happiness in the comfort, happiness is bought with suffering.” If Dostoevsky’s conviction to apply creativity, the talent and bought pain. And Frida Kahlo paid for his talent in full. In six years she suffered polio. Disease dried up the right leg, so Kahlo lifelong limp and wore long skirts. And in 18 years, she has got a car accident: a triple fracture of the spine, fractures of the clavicle, ribs, eleven fractures of his right leg. In addition to her belly pierced metal handrail. Frida survived her year was chained to the bed, suffered three decades of operations, and at the same time began to paint. Therefore, many researchers call it creative art therapy. A week before his death, experiencing extreme pain, she wrote a picture of «Viva la Vida» – «Long live the life»
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Diego
“In my life there were two accidents: one – when the bus crashed into a tram, another – is Diego” – Frida wrote about her husband, a famous artist, a staunch communist and womanizer Diego Rivera. But there were other lines in his diary, Frida wrote: “Diego – beginning Diego – Diego … my baby – my husband, Diego – my mother, Diego – myself, Diego – it’s all”. Diego cheated on his wife relentlessly and continuously. Once with Frida’s sister – the pain of this double betrayal she threw in the film “A few scratches.” However, exist apart Diego and Frida could not – they parted, tried to get a divorce, have changed, but agreed to re-love each other. These Mexican passion also were painted in communist colors, both believed in the revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Mexico
Frid believed that her stories are typical of the pre-Columbian art of Latin America, where the imaginary worlds equated to material worlds. The artist dressed in colorful national costumes of Tehuantepec (largely due to the fact that once prevailed in this area matriarchy), and shock their costumes New York audience. In the US, Frida arrived with her husband – a communist Diego Rivera was invited to paint the Rockefeller Center, built capitalist sharks. From this idea did not work, the frescoes destroyed. But it is in the USA Frieda realized their connection with the motherland. One of the main paintings of Frida Kahlo – “My nurse and I»
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Fridomaniya
In the early 80′s began fridomaniya: pop stars started to buy her paintings and fraudsters to forge them, feminists have raised it to the billboard, and the ladies began to paint her eyebrows a la Frida. Until now, the network – a plurality of rollers on how to do make-up in the spirit of Mexican artist … In the biography of Frida Kahlo has everything you need for a good cult: Mexican exotics and revolutionary romanticism, bisexuality and feminism, tragedy and talent, disease and irrepressible passion for life . However, the last sentence in her diary, written shortly before his death, it sounds completely Buddhist: “I hope that my departure would be the best, and I no longer come back»
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