{"title":"Frida Kahlo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"retrato\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Frida\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrida Kahlo, born on July 6, 1907, at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/GzRVg3rbk7jUPaDZ6\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLondres number 247\u003c\/a\u003e, in Coyoacán, Mexico, where the \"Frida Kahlo Museum,\" better known as the \"Blue House,\" is now located.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagdalena Carmen Frida (Frida Kahlo) was baptized and later married Diego Rivera at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/22hi3EeFXNEVnpXVA\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSan Juan Bautista\u003c\/a\u003e parish, an eleven-minute walk from her birthplace. One of the most emblematic painters of the 20th century, known for her self-portraits and works that reflect her personal pain and suffering, she was also a lover of her neighborhood and parish in the vast and populous Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom an early age, Kahlo faced numerous adversities, polio at six years old and at eighteen, a severe bus accident that left her with permanent physical injuries, such as, it is believed, the difficulty in carrying her four pregnancies to term, unleashing in her a lifelong anguish and discomfort. Her tumultuous relationship with the famous muralist Diego Rivera also had a significant impact on her life and career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artistic movement that most influenced Frida Kahlo was \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/surrealism\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esurrealism\u003c\/a\u003e, although she did not consider herself part of this movement. Her paintings, however, frequently explore themes of fantasy, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/symbolism\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esymbolism\u003c\/a\u003e, and the unconscious, characteristics of surrealism. André Breton, one of the founders of surrealism, described her work as a \"ribbon around a bomb.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKahlo influenced later artistic movements and numerous artists. Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo are two painters close to Kahlo, sharing with her not only the adopted Mexican nationality but also a surrealist approach in their art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrida Kahlo’s art is distinguished by its raw and visceral depiction of suffering (brutally reminiscent of the work of the German artist \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Dix\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOtto Dix\u003c\/a\u003e after the Second World War) employing elements of Mexican culture alongside her own personal iconography. Her self-portraits are renowned for revealing both her physical and emotional pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKahlo used her art to explore and articulate her anxieties, her suffering, and the profound dissonance she experienced between the life she had lived and the life she believed she should have lived. This unique combination of personal and cultural themes renders her works deeply striking, moving, and universal.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dos-fridas-frida-kahlo","title":"The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Two Fridas,\" painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939, is a deeply autobiographical and emotional work that reflects her anguish after her divorce from Diego Rivera. This painting belongs to the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/surrealism\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esurrealist\u003c\/a\u003e movement, although it also has influences from the magical realism characteristic of Latin American art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work presents two versions of Frida seated side by side, their hearts exposed and connected by a single vein. To the viewer’s left appears a more traditional Frida, shaped by an inherited moral structure and oriented toward self-sacrifice, dressed in a white garment stained with blood that symbolizes the part of herself that bleeds in order to sustain the other. To the right emerges a more modern and independent Frida, clothed in blue and green, who nevertheless seems unable to sustain her own existence without the support of the “original Frida,” within a relationship in which both figures reinterpret and uphold one another. This seemingly self-sufficient Frida holds in her left hand a small portrait of Diego Rivera, suggesting that, at the end of her journey, she has ultimately lost everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe entire work speaks of the artist's internal struggle and her ability to translate her emotional pain into a visually striking piece of art laden with symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stein Arts","offers":[{"title":"28 x 28 in","offer_id":49513714123098,"sku":"","price":402.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"33 x 33 in","offer_id":49513714155866,"sku":"","price":510.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"39 x 39 in","offer_id":49513714188634,"sku":"","price":618.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"47 x 47 in","offer_id":49513714221402,"sku":"","price":750.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"56 x 56 in","offer_id":49513714254170,"sku":"","price":1438.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/1851\/6314\/files\/las-dos-fridas-kahlo-webp.webp?v=1776275976"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/1851\/6314\/collections\/FRIDA_KAHLO_5.png?v=1740131192","url":"https:\/\/stein-arts.com\/collections\/kahlo.oembed","provider":"Stein-Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}