Word: kahlo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...maintain anonymity and pay respect to prominent female figures, last night’s Guerrilla Girls used pseudonyms such as Frida Kahlo and Rosalind Franklin, in addition to wearing the masks...
...want people to focus on the issues not our personalities,” said the Guerrilla Girl who identified as herself as Kahlo...
...question and answer period that followed the presentation, Kahlo stated that the masks were effective in initially attracting attention to their group, but now she feels they are “stuck” with them...
...Frida Kahlo, the Mexican surrealist-communist painter, lived her life in ghastly pain, the result of a crippling accident. But pain, though knowable, is also indescribable. Alas, Frida is one of those chipper biopics in which the heroine (Salma Hayek) cheerfully endures her suffering while incidentally creating her art and carrying on her endlessly tormented love affair with the muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). The result is a trivializing movie, especially disappointing because it was directed by Broadway's lionized Julie Taymor (The Lion King). Her first theatrical film, Titus, was distinguished by a bold and visionary sweep. In Frida...
...film is willing to realize, imitated her life in more interesting ways than Taymor shows us. When the paintings are shown on screen, only the most manipulated audience member would not want to be transported to some far-off gallery, where perhaps we can enter the world of Frida Kahlo without the distracting influence of dramatic contrivance...