Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)
Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)
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Acrylic, Other materials | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | framed | Format 50 x 40 cm (H/W) | picture hang up | signed certificate of authenticity
Detailed description
Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)
Frida Kahlo saw herself not only as a precious flower on the lapel of her husband Diego Rivera. In her art she staged herself again and again - as a sensual woman with a damaged body and as an exotic in the gesture of a 'Mexicanidad'. Her unsparing portraits oscillate between exotic beauty, sensuality, ugliness and physical frailty. Not only her paintings, but also her person enjoy cult status today: therefore, the painter also uses gold leaf (24 carat) for the picture background. Figuratively, the artist has approached this icon exclusively with the help of old photographs. The collaged, semi-naive flower applications are an expression of her 'Mexicanidad'. Incidentally, the young Frida was prettier in person than in her self-portraits. Frida Kahlo's self-portraits as models are a taboo zone for Mo Fontaine - untouchable.