{"id":9622,"date":"2016-04-11T18:35:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=9622"},"modified":"2016-04-10T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T22:37:17","slug":"art-in-spanish-frida-kahlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/art-in-spanish-frida-kahlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in Spanish: Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>La semana pasada repasamos <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-vocabulary-art-arte-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">vocabulario sobre arte en espa\u00f1ol<\/a>. Hoy queremos hablar de la artista mexicana <strong>Frida Kahlo<\/strong> (1907-1954). Kahlo\u00a0es famosa por sus <strong>autorretratos<\/strong> <strong>imaginativos<\/strong> e <strong>incatalogables<\/strong>, as\u00ed como por su activismo feminista\u00a0y su defensa\u00a0del comunismo y la revoluci\u00f3n mexicana de 1910. Estuvo casada con el <strong>muralista<\/strong> mexicano Diego Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we reviewed Spanish vocabulary on art. Today we want to talk about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Kahlo is famous for her\u00a0imaginative and off-beat self-portraits, as well as for her feminist activism and defence of communism and the Mexican Revolution of 1910. She was married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9623\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Self-Portrait-1932.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9623\" aria-label=\"Self Portrait 1932 300x266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9623\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9623\"  alt=\"Frida Kahlo in the US-Mexican border\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Self-Portrait-1932-300x266.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frida Kahlo in the US-Mexican border<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sus autorretratos van m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del <strong>realismo<\/strong>, aunque ella no quer\u00eda que se los describiera como surrealistas. Entran en ellos elementos <strong>fant\u00e1sticos<\/strong>, <strong>surrealistas<\/strong>, <strong>on\u00edricos<\/strong> (de los sue\u00f1os), todos los cuales nos invitan a interpretar su <strong>visi\u00f3n de s\u00ed misma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Her self-portraits go beyond realism, although she refused to call them surrealist. In them we find fantastic, surreal, dreamlike elements, all of which invite us to interpret her\u00a0vision of herself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9624\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Recuerdo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9624\" aria-label=\"Recuerdo 200x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9624\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9624\"  alt=\"Her use of color was groundbreaking.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Recuerdo-200x300.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Her use of color was ground-breaking.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sus <strong>autorretratos<\/strong> se volvieron una parte dominante de su vida durante el per\u00edodo en que estuvo inm\u00f3vil durante tres meses despu\u00e9s de un accidente. Frida Kahlo dec\u00eda &#8220;Me pinto a m\u00ed misma porque a menudo estoy sola y soy el sujeto que mejor conozco&#8221;. Su madre le hizo un <strong>caballete<\/strong> a medida para que pudiese pintar acostada en la cama, y su padre le prest\u00f3 su <strong>estuche\u00a0<\/strong>de <strong>pinturas al \u00f3leo<\/strong> y sus <strong>pinceles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Her self-portraits became a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. Frida Kahlo once said, &#8220;I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best&#8221;. Her mother had a special easel made for her so she could paint in bed, and her father lent her his box of oil paints and some brushes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9625\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Itzcuintli-Dog-With-Me-1938-Private-Collection.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9625\" aria-label=\"Itzcuintli Dog With Me 1938 Private Collection 205x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9625\" class=\"wp-image-9625 size-medium\"  alt=\"Itzcuintli-Dog-With-Me-1938-Private-Collection\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Itzcuintli-Dog-With-Me-1938-Private-Collection-205x300.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A little Mexican dog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kahlo se basa en una amplia <strong>gama de influencias<\/strong>, incluyendo el <strong>surrealismo,<\/strong> antiguas creencias aztecas, folclore popular mexicano, la <strong>filosof\u00eda oriental<\/strong> y la imaginer\u00eda m\u00e9dica. Por ejemplo, el\u00a0formato que utiliza\u00a0de <strong>pinturas al \u00f3leo<\/strong> de peque\u00f1a escala sobre\u00a0<strong>metal<\/strong>, inspirado en cuadros de\u00a0<strong>devoci\u00f3n religiosa<\/strong> estil\u00edsticamente <strong>na\u00efve<\/strong>, refleja su herencia cat\u00f3lica. Sin embargo, Kahlo subvierte este lenguaje con\u00a0la elecci\u00f3n\u00a0de temas que\u00a0rompen tab\u00faes, como\u00a0la fragilidad del cuerpo, el nacimiento, la vida y la muerte.<\/p>\n<p>Junto a estos <strong>retratos<\/strong>\u00a0pint\u00f3 varias <strong>naturalezas muertas<\/strong> <strong>exuberantes<\/strong> y <strong>er\u00f3ticos<\/strong>, as\u00ed como <strong>acuarelas<\/strong> y <strong>dibujos<\/strong> menos conocidos, pero igualmente interesantes.<\/p>\n<p>Kahlo draws upon a diverse range of influences, including Surrealism, ancient Aztec belief, popular Mexican folklore, Eastern philosophy and medical imagery. For example, her chosen format of small-scale oil paintings on metal, inspired by stylistically naive devotional paintings, reflects her Catholic heritage. Yet Kahlo subverts this language by creating taboo-breaking subject matter, dealing with the frailty of the body, birth, life and\u00a0death.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside these celebrated portraits she painted\u00a0several lush and erotic still-life paintings, as well as lesser known but equally intriguing watercolours and\u00a0drawings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"239\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Itzcuintli-Dog-With-Me-1938-Private-Collection-239x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Itzcuintli-Dog-With-Me-1938-Private-Collection-239x350.jpg 239w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Itzcuintli-Dog-With-Me-1938-Private-Collection.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><p>La semana pasada repasamos vocabulario sobre arte en espa\u00f1ol. Hoy queremos hablar de la artista mexicana Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Kahlo\u00a0es famosa por sus autorretratos imaginativos e incatalogables, as\u00ed como por su activismo feminista\u00a0y su defensa\u00a0del comunismo y la revoluci\u00f3n mexicana de 1910. Estuvo casada con el muralista mexicano Diego Rivera. Last week we reviewed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/art-in-spanish-frida-kahlo\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":9625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9622","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9629,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions\/9629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}