The biography of the great and famous painter Frida Kahlo written by Linde Zalber titled Frida Kahlo – The life of an indomitable woman, published by Melani publications.
"I'm not sick. I'm broken. But I'm happy as long as I can paint"
"Like a ribbon wrapped around a bomb". This is how Andre Breton described Frida Kahlo's art. The characterization, however, could refer to the fancy painter herself, her colorful Mexican dresses over a mutilated body, full of pain, but also wild lust for life. Others called her the "Saint of female art". Others know mainly about her stormy love life, her passion for the love of her life, the Mexican painter Diego Rivera, whom she married twice, but also her many lovers, men and women, among whom was Leon Trotsky, then exiled in Mexico. But mainly, Frida Kahlo is one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, the first maybe, who dared to break the male rules that defined art until then and one of the few women of her time who managed to live with such freedom and intensity overcoming pain and illness and completely revealing herself through her work.
Neither does Derain, neither do you, me neither, none of us can make a head like Frida's.
Pablo Picasso
Her art is certainly not the perfect method of discovering oneself and, regardless of external appearance to make him more beautiful. It is something much more. An approach to ourselves, in what can be done, to "not yet" – nothing is considered final, everything adds up – a search of the form which, when found, responds to Yeats's aesthetic: "everything is transformed, they change completely. A hideous beauty ensues.”
Carlos Fuentes, Illustrated calendar, 1995
THE AUTHOR
Linde Zalber PhD in Psychology and psychotherapist was born in 1944 in Tydz, Pomerania and works at the University of Cologne. Her specialty is the relationship between an artist's life and work. From the 1983 he paints. Author of monographs: Anais Nin (1992) and Marlene Dietrich (2001) and the biography One Thousand and One Women, the story of Anais Nin. Lou Andreas Salome's book, the biography of a femme fatale, (2005) published by Melani publications.
Source : culturenow.gr