COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0001792
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aahi0001792
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Work Title (display):
My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree)
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1936
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
Mexican fantasy painter known as much for her turbulent personal life as her fanciful self-portraits. Kahlo learned to paint in 1925 after recovering from a debilitating bus accident that left her unable to bear children. The tragedy was often the subject of her paintings and was an integral part of her personal imagery. Her work can be seen as the product of a kind of exorcism by which she projected her anguish on to another Frida, in order to free herself from pain and at the same time maintain a hold of reality. Small in scale, primitive in style, and bold in color, the artist is sometimes shown as an animal, such a deer, which have lead artists and critics alike to label her work Surrealist. The artist eschewed this, maintaining that she painted images from her own life, not dreams. Also the subject of several works was her tumultuous marriage to artist Diego Rivera. One portrait shows the artist as a tiny figure in traditional Mexican dress, dwarfed in size by the large, brooding Rivera. In 1953, Kahlo's leg was amputated at the knee due to gangrene. She subsequently turned to drugs and alcohol to relieve her suffering. She died almost certainly by suicide in 1954. Her work began to get notoriety in the 1970's, becoming popular with feminist art historians and Latin Americans living in the United States.
Work Style Period:
Mexican
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Mexican
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
20th century
work_styleperiod
20th century
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Work Subject:
genealogies (histories)
subject
genealogies (histories)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
fetus
subject
fetus
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Nazis
subject
Nazis
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
women (female humans)
subject
women (female humans)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Mexico (nation)
subject
Mexico (nation)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
figures
subject
figures
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
children (people by age group)
subject
children (people by age group)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
men (male humans)
subject
men (male humans)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
families (kinship groups)
subject
families (kinship groups)
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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false
Work Worktype:
oil paintings
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oil paintings
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
oil and tempera on metal panel
Work Measurements (display):
31 cm (H) x 33 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid:
102.1976
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid type:
accession
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Rights (display):
© Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Davis Art Images
Work Rights (display):
© Frida Kahlo
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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