Word: kahlo
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...apasionado de la pol?tica y el arte tanto como lo es de la construcci?n. En su rol de activo contribuyente del partido dem?crata, P?rez asesor? al presidente Bill Clinton en asuntos relacionados con Cuba. Su colecci?n de arte incluye trabajos de importantes maestros latinoamericanos como Fernando Botero, Frida Kahlo y Roberto Matta, y es promotor del arte en espacios p?blicos. En todo lo que hace, P?rez refleja su credo de que ?cada vez que realizas una actividad, no s?lo est?s defini?ndote a ti mismo sino que est?s definiendo el mundo que te rodea?. Y la arquitectura de Miami...
...Am?ricas, ubicado en el Museo de Bellas Artes, Houston, TX. El centro se dedica no s?lo ha coleccionar y exhibir las obras de la vanguardia latinoamericana sino tambi?n a apoyar la investigaci?n y ense?anza para aclarar que tal arte va m?s all? del surrealismo folkl?rico de Frida Kahlo o los campesinos de Diego Rivera...
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's self-portraits are now reproduced on boxes, bags and chairs, but she can never be entirely domesticated - her painful images still belong to her, and still have the power to shock, as can be seen at "Frida Kahlo," a retrospective of nearly 90 works at London's Tate Modern until Oct. 9 (tel: [44-20] 7887 8008; www.tate.org.uk). Her work has been labeled socialist, feminist and Surrealist - but she defied every pigeonhole. What is certain is that her life played like a soap opera: at 18 she was horribly injured in a bus crash...
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's self-portraits are now reproduced on boxes, bags and chairs, but she can never be entirely domesticated?her painful images still belong to her, and still have the power to shock. See them at "Frida Kahlo," a retrospective of nearly 90 works at London's Tate Modern until Oct. 9 (tel: [44-20] 7887 8008; www.tate.org.uk). Her work has been labeled socialist, feminist and Surrealist?but she defied every pigeonhole. What is certain is that her life played like a soap opera: at 18 she was horribly injured in a bus crash...
...remarried Rivera; and gained success as an artist before dying at 48 of pneumonia in 1954. In her many self-portraits she poses formally, surrounded by foliage, landscapes and animals. She was also inspired by local retablos?naive pictures given as votive offerings to saints for miraculous recoveries. Unrescued, Kahlo presents herself, bleeding like a martyr. Later she turned to mysticism, and her paintings became overburdened by symbols, with Karl Marx and Jesus meeting Satan and monkeys. She liked to paint herself with simians, often with an arm round her shoulders (Self Portrait with Monkey, 1940). Kahlo's work, like...