Sunday, November 07, 2021

Tweet of the Day

Señora Diego Rivera (or "Freda" as her friends call her) might be better known to you as Frida Kahlo. As far as I know, she never used the name Rivera. (via Nag on the Lake) 
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4 comments:

  1. Bicycle Bill11/07/2021 03:06:00 AM

    The newspaper article was written and originally published in 1933, when her husband, Diego Rivera, was in Detroit to create a mural for the Detroit Institute of Art.   Frida was only 26 years old and had not yet begun to receive the fame and notoriety she now has.   While her naive, almost primitive style had attracted some attention, her first solo exhibition (in 1938, at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York) was still five years in the future.

    Context is everything.

    -"BB"-

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  2. Debra She Who Seeks11/07/2021 10:05:00 AM

    Wow. Just wow. Even without "context," it's supremely patronizing. Typical of the times, yes, but that still doesn't justify it.

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  3. Ellie Finlay11/09/2021 06:42:00 PM

    Grrrrrrr!

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  4. Patty O'Heater11/14/2021 10:32:00 AM

    For someone who seemed to do nothing but self portraits, mostly horrendously bad, she got a lot of attention in later life. I'r rather look at her husband's murals!

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