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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