Word: kahlo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which of those fierce, rearing heads was the real Polly Jean Harvey? Was there a woman behind the trademark moans and Frida Kahlo brows, or was it all the sound and fury of a woman who signified nothing in the theater of her own performances...
EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...
...addition to the experimental pieces, the show includes portaits of Bravo's interesting acquaintances: Frida Kahlo, Sergei Eisenstein and Andre Breton. Revelaciones provides a valuable opportunity to see some of Bravo's finest work. His inspired vision offers American audiences a landscape that is new and exceedingly real...
...Revelaciones" exhibit, which showcasesscenes of daily life in Mexico, features portraitsof influential Mexican artists of the 1930s, suchas painter Frieda Kahlo and her muralist husbandDiego Rivera, both close friends of Bravo...
Included in the exhibit is a photograph ofRussian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, a lover ofKahlo. Historians have speculated that Kahlo mayhave been an accomplice in Trotsky's assassinationin Mexico City...