{"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":"

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La semana pasada repasamos vocabulario sobre arte en espa\u00f1ol<\/a>. Hoy queremos hablar de la artista mexicana Frida Kahlo<\/strong> (1907-1954). Kahlo\u00a0es famosa por sus autorretratos<\/strong> imaginativos<\/strong> e 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 muralista<\/strong> mexicano Diego Rivera.<\/p>\n

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

\"Frida<\/a>

Frida Kahlo in the US-Mexican border<\/p><\/div>\n

Sus autorretratos van m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del realismo<\/strong>, aunque ella no quer\u00eda que se los describiera como surrealistas. Entran en ellos elementos fant\u00e1sticos<\/strong>, surrealistas<\/strong>, on\u00edricos<\/strong> (de los sue\u00f1os), todos los cuales nos invitan a interpretar su visi\u00f3n de s\u00ed misma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

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\"Her<\/a>

Her use of color was ground-breaking.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sus 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 “Me pinto a m\u00ed misma porque a menudo estoy sola y soy el sujeto que mejor conozco”. Su madre le hizo un caballete<\/strong> a medida para que pudiese pintar acostada en la cama, y su padre le prest\u00f3 su estuche\u00a0<\/strong>de pinturas al \u00f3leo<\/strong> y sus pinceles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Her self-portraits became a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. Frida Kahlo once said, “I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best”. 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

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\"Itzcuintli-Dog-With-Me-1938-Private-Collection\"<\/a>

A little Mexican dog.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kahlo se basa en una amplia gama de influencias<\/strong>, incluyendo el surrealismo,<\/strong> antiguas creencias aztecas, folclore popular mexicano, la filosof\u00eda oriental<\/strong> y la imaginer\u00eda m\u00e9dica. Por ejemplo, el\u00a0formato que utiliza\u00a0de pinturas al \u00f3leo<\/strong> de peque\u00f1a escala sobre\u00a0metal<\/strong>, inspirado en cuadros de\u00a0devoci\u00f3n religiosa<\/strong> estil\u00edsticamente 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

Junto a estos retratos<\/strong>\u00a0pint\u00f3 varias naturalezas muertas<\/strong> exuberantes<\/strong> y er\u00f3ticos<\/strong>, as\u00ed como acuarelas<\/strong> y dibujos<\/strong> menos conocidos, pero igualmente interesantes.<\/p>\n

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

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

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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…<\/p>\n

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