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Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish

Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish
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By Martha Zamora abridged and translated by Marilyn Sode Smith.


"FRIDA ( 1907 - 1954 ) - a modern Mexican icon- was born in Mexico City in 1907, to a Hungarian-Jewish German father and a Spanish & Indigenous mother. Frida's life long battle with pain began early when she was stricken with polio, in 1925 during her convalescence after a serious bus accident that nearly killed her, Frida painted her first self-portrait. Frida's work had no precedent in the history of art - her paintings exalted the feminine quality of truth, reality, cruelty and suffering. What Frida described as her "second accident" was her marriage to famous Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera. Filled with love, betrayal and suffering due to Diego's endless womanizing affairs,Frida began a series of love affairs-including one with exiled communist leader Leon Trotsky. Frida-a communist til the end, her last public appearance was at a demonstration protesting the US led coup that overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan president, Jacobo Arbenz. At her request-her coffin was drapped with the communist flag. Her last diary entry read: 'I hope the end is joyful - and I hope never to come back - Frida.'"

In Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish Martha Zamora Captures the essence of Frida Kahlo, one of Mexico's most highly regarded and talented painters. Seventy-five of Kahlo's paintings, reproduced here in lavis color, accompany historical photograph and Zamora's descriptive text. Together they tell the story of Kahlo's remarkable and tragic life: her disastrous streetcar accident in adolescence, her tempestuous marriage to the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, her travels to the United States and abroad, her political convictions, and her relationship with the great leaders and artistic personalities of her time. Frida Kahlos's flamboyant but intimate style is eloquently reflected in her many self-portraits, and it has earned her an enthusiastic followeing world wide. For Kahlo's many admirers, as well as for those new to her work, this richly illustrated vlume is an excellent reference and introduction to her passionate and provocative art.

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