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Frida Kahlo: Works
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Best known for her striking self-portraits, Frida Kahlo is the first Latina ever to be honored with an U.S. postage stamp. In 2001,The United States Postal Service contacted the artist, Delgado to create a tribute on a very limited commemorative cachet which enhances her works and stamp. He incorporated several of her images from numerous paintings into an original and unquie design. Then this was produced into an limited edition of only 1000 worldwide. Each is signed and numbered by Delgado. Each cachet was hand stamped by the USPO showing the date of Ist release and each contains the stamp honoring Frida.
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The art of Frida Kahlo has been the focus of great interest for critics and scholars in the last generation. This is dramatically manifested in the 2002 movie Frida starring Selma Hayek. While her work was generally ignored by scholars in the 1960s undoubtedly due to her pro-Communist stance, the rise of feminism and questions of identity in recent critical theory have led scholars to reevaluate her work. The following excerpt from John Tagg's Ground of Dispute (p. 20) suggest why Kahlo's work would gain recent critical acceptance:
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After the accident, Frida Kahlo turned her attention away from the study of medicine to begin a full-time painting career. The accident left her in a great deal of pain while she recovered in a full body cast; she painted to occupy her time during her temporary state of immobilization. Her self-portraits became a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best" reflects her inner feelings about both her art and her psychological state. Frida's mother had a special easel made for her so she could paint in bed, and her father lent her his box of oil paints and some brushes.[6] Drawing on personal experiences including her troubled marriage, her painful miscarriages, and her numerous operations, Kahlo's works are often characterized by their stark portrayals of pain. Of her 143 paintings, fifty-five are self-portraits, which frequently incorporate symbolic portrayals of her physical and psychological wounds.
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Frida Kahlo had always dreamt of being a famous doctor... whilst recovering from her dreadful injuries, she taught herself to paint. Having never studied art, Frida studied the works of the Italian Renaissance and began to paint for any visitors and relatives willing to pose for her. She then gave the paintings away as gifts.
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Frida Kahlo was photographed by many artists including Edward Weston, Héctor García, Imogen Cunningham, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Lola Alvarez Bravo, Nicholas Murray, Guillermo Zamora and Lucienne Bloch[10]. Many Chicana/o artists have included versions of her self portraits in their work, among them Rupert García, Alfredo Arreguín, Yreina D. Cervántez, Pietro Psaier, Marcos Raya, Gilbert Hernandez, and Carmen Lomas Garza.
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Frida Kahlo’s life was marked by physical suffering, started with the polio contracted at the age of five and worsened by a near fatal bus accident in 1925. She suffered severe injuries to her body owing to a pole that pierced her from the stomach to the pelvis. The medicine of her time tortured her body with surgical operations (32 throughout her life), corsets of different kinds and mechanical "stretching" systems. Because of these injuries, much of her works were painted lying in the bed. Frida Kahlo was ... never able to have any children which were a great sorrow for her.
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