Throughout her life, Kahlo always resisted the norm: from painting "whatever passed through her head" to involving herself in politics while most women sat on the sidelines -- and yes, by having a unibrow. Kahlo always stayed true to her own beliefs and instincts, and this who-cares attitude was the reason she gained so much respect around the world. What then, dear AGO, do you tell us about Frida Kahlo when you hand out stick-on unibrows to people who know nothing of Kahlo's paintings or her feminist impact, and ask them to pose for the camera?
The answer is nothing. Instead, your cheap marketing scheme robs Kahlo's unibrow of all its glorious beauty and meaning, and glibly reinforces the idea that gender is something that exists in a binder and that gender deviance is something to be mocked.
Yet, it's possible to paint a different picture here. Encouraging patrons to do their research about the woman behind the brow -- the one who achieved so much for women in both art and politics simply by being herself -- can help give meaning back to that fuzzy piece of felt and perhaps return some playfulness to your campaign.
As your curator Dot Tuer explained in an interview with the Toronto Sun , " Kahlo had a great sense of humour, a great love of life, so the unibrow is supposed to be funny. This blog was originally posted on shamelessmag. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline.
HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Rivera had been commissioned to paint Detroit Industry, the impressive cycle of fresco murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts. As Rivera worked on the murals, Kahlo, who was a relatively unknown painter at the time, began her early definitive work.
In the National Archives we have motion picture films documenting the work on the project. In one of them, around minute , you can see Kahlo sketching and laughing. While she looks happy in the film, she did not enjoy her time in Detroit. While there, she faced isolation and endured a difficult pregnancy, fearing complications caused by the bus accident.
She ended up suffering a miscarriage while in Detroit, which some art historians point to as spurring the form of self-representation which became her greatest contribution to art history. Visit our web page for resources on related records and how we are commemorating the month.
She found them pretentious and superficial. Her letters often feature scathing critiques of the French:. Henry Ford Hospital, In fact, he was MIA for days and the suspicion was that he was having an affair while his wife was dying. This is one reason why Diego does not feature in the Henry Ford Hospital painting. The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, The disturbing and stunning work was in storage for decades before being donated to a museum.
They gifted her a sari and she insisted they dress her in it. She died in that very bed:. By Giselle Freund.
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