Frida Kahlo Libri

Frida fu una donna che diede alla sua creatività ali per fuggire dal dolore. Una malattia infantile e un grave incidente segnarono la sua giovane vita, ma la straripante personalità, il desiderio di ribellione e il suo straordinario carattere la fecero emergere come una delle grandi icone femminili del XX secolo. Amò molto, liberamente e appassionatamente, e condivise con intellettuali e artisti una vita ricca di esperienze. La sua genialità e le sue vicende rimasero impresse nelle sue opere variopinte, grazie alle quali divenne una delle artiste più note del XX secolo.

In una serie di lettere la pittrice messicana Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), oggi considerata tra le piu significative artiste del ventesimo secolo, racconta la sua vita, la sua arte, le sue tragedie (la poliomelite contratta da piccola e l'incidente stradale che, diciottenne, la rese invalida costringendola a continue operazioni), i suoi sogni e i suoi amori: la sua passione per Alejandro, il lacerante rapporto con l'artista Diego Rivera, la sua adesione al marxismo. Il libro e arricchito da un ampio apparato iconografico, in bianco e nero.

42 selected master works by legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. A special bargain in first-class Schirmer/Mosel quality.

Prestel Mini showing Frida Kahlo's paintings in mini format.

Die faszinierenden Bilder von Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) waren in vielerlei Hinsicht Ausdruck ihrer Traumata. Ein fast tödlicher Unfall mit 18, gesundheitliche Probleme, eine turbulente Ehe, Fehlgeburten und Kinderlosigkeit: Die Malerin verwandelte ihre persönlichen Schicksalsschläge in revolutionäre Kunst . In ihren Selbstporträts blickt Kahlo den Betrachter mutig und herausfordernd an. Sie lehnte es ab, die Rolle des passiven Opfers einzunehmen, und verarbeitete stattdessen ihre Erfahrungen zu einer hybriden surreal-realen Sprache des Lebens , bestehend aus Haaren, Wurzeln, Adern, Ranken, Tentakeln und Eileitern. Viele ihrer Werke befassen sich auch mit den politischen Idealen des Kommunismus , die Kahlo mit ihrem Mann Diego Rivera teilte. Die Künstlerin beschreibt ihre Bilder selbst als „ das ehrlichste und wahrhaftigste, das ich tun konnte, um auszudrücken, was ich innerlich und äußerlich fühlte “. Dieser Band präsentiert eine Auswahl an Kahlos Werken und untersucht ihre Bedeutung als Malerin, feministische Ikone und Vertreterin der Kultur Lateinamerikas.

This volume covers the major events of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's (1907-1954) tumultuous life and graphically displays some of her most well known works. Each section contains a biography, chronology and photos of that period of her life. The remainder of the book contains 42 plates of her masterpiece paintings reproduced in full color and detail. Sections of the paintings are enlarged to reveal the intricate detail, the brush strokes and even the texture of the canvas. A descriptive analysis of each painting is included to provide an insight into its meaning and her inspiration to create the piece.

At eighteen, a bus accident changed Frida Kahlo's life, leaving her with lifelong pain. However, her determination and hard work fostered her artistic talent. Her paintings and writings reflect the courageous life story of a woman who continually sought herself alongside the famous Diego Rivera.

In the fall of 1938 Frida Kahlo traveled to New York for her first solo exhibition. There she met photographer Nickolas Muray whom she had first met in Mexico, and they started a passionate affair. Muray, born in Hungary, was a successful New York fashion and commercial photographer known for his portraits of celebrities such as Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Claude Monet. Having experimented with color from early on, Muray found his most colorful model in Frida Kahlo. Their liaison yielded a series of breathtaking, mostly color photographs, most of them never published. Our book for the first time presents a large selection of this series, with excerpts from the Kahlo/Muray correspondence and an essay by Salomon Grimberg.

The intimate life of artist Frida Kahlo is wonderfully revealed in the illustrated journal she kept during her last 10 years. This passionate and at times surprising record contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and dreams; many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera, along with 70 mesmerising watercolour illustrations. The text entries in brightly coloured inks make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist's political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than thirty-five operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of eighteen.

The letters of Frida Kahlo to her mother, published in English for the first time.