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The Kiss Felt Round the World.. or at least to me.

I got an amazing necklace with a pendant, one side, this image, the other side, a picture of just Frida. :) Sorry for the lack of updates, I was in Fairfield for most of last week, enjoying the holiday and my family, and seeing friends perform in an improv show. Now that I'm home in the East Bay, I'm in full 'make art mode'. I painted last night and will probably work on some more tonight after this, dispite how tired I am. I'll wake up early tomorrow and make a real post of things. :)

So much art to talk about and show it's overwhelming. :)

My hero, my inspiration, my life, and my love. Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo's pictures exhibition in San Jose, Ca

Saturday, October 11, 2008 through Sunday, March 22, 2009

Shedding light on the life and art of Frida Kahlo (1907 -1954), this exhibition features approximately fifty photographic portraits of the legendary Mexican artist. Drawn from the collection of Spencer Throckmorton, a specialist in Latin American photography, the exhibition includes works by several of the most renowned photographers of the twentieth century: Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Nickolas Muray.

These preeminent photographers produced remarkable portraits of refined artistry and technique that exceed the boundaries documentary photography. Nonetheless, some of the most revealing photographs in the exhibition were taken by her close friends and family, such as Guillermo Kahlo and Lucienne Block, who were also accomplished photographers. Overall, these portraits chronicle Kahlo from the onset of her artistic career until her death and portray her various roles as painter, patient, wife, daughter, lover, and friend. Many of the photographs offer an intimate glimpse of private moments in her bedroom, hospital room, studio, and garden. Other images reveal the artist's carefully constructed self-image. Often dressed in pre-Columbian attire, Kahlo demonstrates a deep interest in her Mexican heritage while discretely concealing her physically deformed leg beneath her long flowing skirts.

Highlights of the exhibition include Bernard Silberstein's Frida painting The Wounded Table, (1940), which juxtaposes the artist with one of her works in progress. Viewed as a whole, the featured images provide extraordinary insight on an artist who described herself as 'la gran ocultadora' or the great concealer. This exhibition is organized by Throckmorton Fine Art, New York.