An analysis of the book Frida Kahlo: A Biography.
- Date: March 26, 2003
- Level: University, Bachelor's
- Grade: A
- Length: 4 pages (962 words)
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frida kahlo, hayden herrera, art history program, intrigued, chronological account, art historian, ...paintings, mexican painter, first printed, harper collins, well aware, contradictions, autobiography, dissertation, graduate school
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Frida, a biography of a Mexican painter, was the work of author Hayden Herrera. First printed in 1983 by Harper Collins, this book was reprinted in 2002. Herrera received help from the Graduate School of the City University of New York, as well as a grant from the Art History Program Dissertation Fund. Hayden Herrera, an art historian, intrigued by the complex and contradictive life of Frida Kahlo, felt the desire to record and perfect an autobiography in tribute to the woman. Well aware of the myths that are full of contradictions and vague, Herrera puts out the truth, assured that the truth will not dismiss the myth that Frida created herself. Herrera put together ...
... of her time painting self-portraits, encompassing a third of all her paintings. All of her paintings dealt with some aspect of her life. Frida states, "I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration." She painted numerous portraits of her abortions, complex marriage, disembodied organs, fetuses, corpses, lovers, family, and images of growing up. One of her famous pieces is of her nanny nursing her with the nanny's face blacked out and her own eyes looking lost. During her life, she had three exhibitions: one in New
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