Periods: Naive art, Modern art, Surrealism, Magical realism, Symbolism, Primitivism, Naturalism, Social realism, Cubism
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portrait and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country popular culture, she employed a naive folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience chronic pain.
A small selection of paintings from this year that I’m able to post on here (the others being reserved for upcoming exhibitions next year).
To all those who have purchased my work or have simply shown an interest in what I do, thanks so much for continuing to support me and my artistic practice. Every like, comment and share is appreciated.
The past couple of years have been pretty hard going, and next year will be rough too I’m sure, but hey, we’ve all made it this far… I wish you all a peaceful and healthy holiday and new year.
So I’ve decided to make a series called ‘An Artist’s Life in a Textpost’, which is basically a series of textposts paying homage to a certain artist’s life in a series of point forms. I’m not sure whether anyone would be interested, but I decided to do it anyways because 1) it’s really quick to write and 2) I love discovering new artists (not just painters, but also musicians, poets etc.) and I don’t want to spend time pouring over their 5,000 word biography on Wikipedia or some other website. So here goes nothing!
(If you’re interested in following this I’ll be tagging it with an artist’s life in a textpost so…zero points to me for originality but yes)
I don’t usually post stuff that bothers me but here is something I feel is kind of important to any one who is an artist. I see too many times fellow artists not respecting other artists in terms of stealing/appropriating others creative work in different mediums.
By this I mean I see a ton of photographers complain about people stealing images but have no issue sticking music they obviously have no permission to use on their website (which if you are still sticking music onyour web portfolio, especially auto play, in this day and age, that’s questionable judgement to begin with and another conversation for another time).
Too many DJ’s/ Musicians liberally taking photographs without permission. Seeing creative types of all mediums bragging about or promoting the bootlegging of movies/music, etc. Even too many creatives I see just taking jokes they see on twitter, tumblr, the interwebs, etc and posting it, verbatim, on their facebook, twitter as if it’s their own (hey, comedians are creatives too)
It’s sad because we fight constantly for people to respect our work, give credit where it’s due but have no qualms of doing it to others outside of our field. We can’t expect people to respect our work, our creative talents if we ourselves don’t respect others, and do so frivolously without a second thought. Please keep this in mind the next time you want to appropriate ANY work by someone that isn’t your own.
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Pictured above:
Esther and Adolph Gottlieb in East Hampton ca. 1960
