Anthro & Frida

So I just browsed through the new Anthro Catalog and all I could think of was Frida Kahlo (Maybe because I'm mildly obsessed with her). Look at some photos of her and the screen shots of the catalog, and tell me what you think.

frida kahlo

 frida kahlo

*there are some graphic images in this post due to the nature of Frida's work.*

i love her work. she kept it real and never forgot her roots. i did research on her during my undergrad and i came accross a journal entry in which she is talking about her time visiting the surrealists in Paris in the 1930s.

"They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that i can't stand them anymore... I would rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris."

She was frustrated that they were "fighting" for revolution, but had no idea what a real revolution looked like. 

One of my favorite paintings of her's is Los Dos Fridas.

She has also dealt with something close and personal to me, misscarriage. Because of her accidents as  young woman she was never able to have children and went through three miscarriages, which she then translated onto canvas. 

During my miscarriage I just kept thinking about Frida. Since this is something people don't talk about I felt so alone and so instantly connected to her. As I shared with people what happened to me more people began to share that this happened to others they knew and gave me women to share with. 

But I am forever grateful to Frida for translating her pain to canvas and sharing that in a very real way with us. 

a note: I contemplated for a long time about weather or not to write about my miscarriage on my blog but decided to for one reason and one reason only. I want other women to know they are not alone. 

Diego & Google

Today Google is honoring Diego Rivera with an awesome illustration of his work.

He was such a talented artist and i loved learning about his work during my research at school. Here are a few of my favorites of his.

San Francisco Art Institute

en al Arsenal

el vendor de alcatraces

and a portrait of him and Frida.

I always loved to look at the work they created at the same time and one of the most striking situations was while they were living in Detroit.

Diego loved to represent the common worker. In Mexico that was the farmers and revolutionaries. While in America that was the factory workers. They are the machine of America and the ones building the cars to him. 

While in Detroit Frida had a miscarriage that was very traumatic. And this is what she associates with Detroit, the sky and her unfortunate time at the Ford Hospital.

If you want to learn more about her & Diego the movie Frida with Selma Hayek is actually pretty accurate with her life story.

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have a great Thursday!