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Pub Date 11/8/2022
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| | | Frida Kahlo and Arte PopularText by Layla Bermeo.
 How Kahlo collected, celebrated and depicted Mexican folk arts in both her painting and her personaThe visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo (1907–54) drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular—painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys, and other objects created in Mexico’s rural and Indigenous communities. The hundreds of folk-art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and her fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mâché and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self-presentation, playing on modernist fascination with folk culture and on her own relation to layered Mexican identity.
This bilingual book, the first in-depth exploration of Kahlo’s varied and sophisticated responses to arte popular, situates her within the broad artistic and intellectual movements of her time, examines her professional ambitions and illuminates the innovative techniques she used in her lifelong encounter, both playful and powerful, with the folk art of Mexico.
PRAISE AND REVIEWSBoston Magazine Lexa Krajewski [Sees] Kahlo’s work as representative of the period of art history in which she lived, and 'as an early way of thinking about the personal as also something that’s political,' a theme well-suited to bringing Kahlo’s work into modern-day conversation. WBUR Maria Garcia What floors me about Kahlo's work is the enduring power of her political voice. At the MFA, the exhibition begins with "Dos Mujeres," the painting owned by the MFA. [...] It marks a seminal momen [...] it's so clear she has something to say: The poor, the indigenous deserve to be painted with dignity. The Harvard Crimson Kaylee S. Kim [A] much needed and deserved look into her inspirations — namely, Mexican folk art. The Bay State Banner Celina Colby [Separates] her mythic reputation from the reality of her practice. The result is an informative look into the world around Kahlo and how it influenced her work and her carefully prepared self-image. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/5/2023 According to Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular author Layla Bermeo, Frida Kahlo was one of many middle-class Mexican mestizo women who "appropriated the traditional clothing, jewelry and braids of Indigenous women as a performance of nationalism, a wearable extension of collecting arte popular." In this photograph taken around 1940 by Bernard Silberstein, Kahlo—a devout collector of Mexican folk and indigenous art, including painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys—appears in the same bida ní quichi headdress that she wore in her iconic 1943 painting, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana. In the photograph, she stands before her collection of arte popular ceramics. continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/5/2023According to Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular author Layla Bermeo, Frida Kahlo was one of many middle-class Mexican mestizo women who "appropriated the traditional clothing, jewelry and braids of Indigenous women as a performance of nationalism, a wearable extension of collecting arte popular." In this photograph taken around 1940 by Bernard Silberstein, Kahlo—a devout collector of Mexican folk and indigenous art, including painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys—appears in the same bida ní quichi headdress that she wore in her iconic 1943 painting, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana. In the photograph, she stands before her collection of arte popular ceramics. continue to blog | |  | MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, BostonISBN: 9780878468881
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