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princessmacabre · 5 months

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My heroine and Icon.

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oldwinesoul · 1 year

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—Frida Kahlo

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itscolossal · 5 months

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A Reissued Book Reveals Hundreds of Photos from Frida Kahlo’s Personal Collection

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philosophors · 5 months

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“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

— Frida Kahlo

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eccentricsworld · 2 months

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"I love you more than my own skin and even though you don't love me the same way, you love me anyways, don't you? And if you don't, I'll always have the hope that you do, and i'm satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you."

Frida Kahlo

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litandlifequotes · 8 months

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I want to be inside your darkest everything.

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Frida Kahlo

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a-typical · 5 months

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In her 1932 painting Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States, a defiant Frida straddles an imaginary boundary between Mexico and Detroit, where she was living at the time with her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera. The Mexican side is strewn with skulls, ruins, plants, and flowers with thick roots burrowed deep into the soil. The Detroit side contains factories, skyscrapers, and plumes of smoke—an industrial city that hides the natural cycle of life and death.

While living in Detroit, Kahlo became pregnant. She wrote of the pregnancy to her former physician, Leo Eloesser, her devoted correspondent from 1932 to 1951. She worried that pregnancy was too dangerous, that her body had been damaged by the famous streetcar accident that shattered part of her pelvis and punctured her uterus. Kahlo reported that her doctor in Detroit “gave me quinine and very strong castor oil for purge.” When the chemicals failed to end the pregnancy, her doctor declined to perform a surgical abortion, and Kahlo faced the prospect of carrying the risky pregnancy to term. She begged Eloesser to write to her doctor in Detroit, “since performing an abortion is against the law, maybe he is scared or something, and later it would be impossible to undergo such an operation.” We don’t know how Eloesser responded to Kahlo’s request, but two months later, she suffered a violent miscarriage.

In a painting she created after her experience, Henry Ford Hospital (La cama volando), Frida lies naked on a hospital bed, the sheets soaked with blood. Objects float in the space around her, attached to her stomach by umbilical cords made of red ribbon: a male fetus (her son), medical objects, and symbols like a snail and an orchid. Detroit’s stark, manufacturing skyline disturbs the background.

Regardless of her visceral distaste for Detroit and the horrible misfortune that occurred there, art historian Victor Zamudio Taylor claims it was here that “Kahlo, for the first time, consciously decides that she will paint about herself, and that she will paint the most private and painful aspects of herself.”

— From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty

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jaimeblancarte · 7 months

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@jaimeblancarte Querétaro, 2023

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carpe-noctem-bitchess · 8 months

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Yes, your heart stopped at 5:05 am. You still have so much time left across the world. Frida kahlo painted flowers so that they would not die, my darling muse, how can I ever accept that you're gone?

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softwarmfur · 1 month

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fuck ive gone too long without looking at the salvador dali art book that i constantly re-read as a young child and which informed a serious chunk of my personality, sexuality, imagination, subconscious, as well as my preferences in art....i need to re-read i need it i need it i need it i need it

#i destroyed the spine of that book lol #my parents have a lot of art books and my favorites to look at as a child were salvador dali. cindy sherman. and frida kahlo. LMFAO #i feel like that tells you. a lot about me

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prosedumonde · 10 months

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« Je me peins parce que je suis seule. Je suis le sujet que je connais le mieux. »

Gérard de Cortanze, Frida Kahlo, la beauté terrible

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princessmacabre · 5 months

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Frida & Me.