Magalia
Saint Michael
Lakeviewestates
Autumn Landscape
The Depositon from the Cross
Carlisle
Glasford
Thisbe
The Birth of the Virgin -05-
easy
The Violet Kimino
online photo album
Durres
Votive Portrait of the Vendramin Family
Bartolommeo Caporali
barnwood
Eden
Streator
Boulevard Heloise,Argenteuil
The Porta Octavia in Rome
The Agony in the Garden -nn03-
A Slate Wharf,with the Village of Clappe
Window ds
Portrait of jami leaning on a staff,with
Hella
Battle between The Monitor and Merrimac
The Barque of Dante
wood frame sofa
The Angel Is Opening Christ-s Tomb
Self-Portrait with Straw Hat -nn04-
oblong
Itzcuintli Dog with me
Frankfurt
The Rape of Ganymede
The Last Day of Pompeii
Noli Me Tangere
The Dream of St Ursula fdg
Belleairbeach
san diago
Study of a young woman,half-length,in pr
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Frida Kahlo:
1907-54
Mexican painter, b. Coyoacen. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits incorporating a personal symbolism complete with graphic anatomical references. She was also influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, aspects of which she portrayed in bright colors, with a mixture of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married. Although Kahlo's work is sometimes classified as surrealist and she did exhibit several times with European surrealists, she herself disputed the label. Her preoccupation with female themes and the figurative candor with which she expressed them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th cent.
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