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Frida Kahlo’s phenomenal art – “Frida Kahlo” showcases the works, not the legend, of the woman who sneered at suffering while wedding Mexican folk to European modernism. – Philadelphia

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“Devi Cholet can pinpoint the moment she realized that Frida Kahlo, painter of iconic self-portraits, had herself attained icon status.

Five years ago at Indigo, Cholet’s folk-arts gallery in Philadelphia’s Old City, a customer squinted at a religious amulet from India.

“Shiva or Frida?” the shopper asked, unsure whether it represented the Hindu deity of transformation or the Mexican artist, transformer of pain.”*

*From: www.philly.com
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Posted on: February 18th, 2008
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