Museum Of Fine Arts Boston - Frida Kahlo And Arte Popular - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: How Kahlo collected celebrated and depicted Mexican folk arts in both her painting and her persona The visionary and supremely self - fashioning artist Frida Kahlo (1907 54) drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular painted ceramics embroidered textiles religious votives effigies and children's toys and other objects created in Mexico's rural and Indigenous communities. The hundreds of folk - art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and her fascination with the work of carvers weavers sculptors of papier - m ch and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self - presentation playing on modernist fascination with folk culture and on her own relation to layered Mexican identity. This bilingual book the first in - depth exploration of Kahlo's varied and sophisticated responses to arte popular situates her within the broad artistic and intellectual movements of her time examines her professional ambitions and illuminates the innovative techniques she used in her lifelong encounter both playful and powerful with the folk art of Mexico.
Title: Frida Kahlo And Arte Popular
Brand: Museum Of Fine Arts Boston
Barcode: 9780878468881
Pages: 240 Pages, 120 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Category: History Of The Americas