EN 1700 Lecture Notes - Unibrow, Gender Role, Miscarriage
Document Summary
Agent of her own discourse: she was not content to let others construct a story for her but be the active storyteller. Kahlo: self-taught, passionate, rebellious, but takes part of female artists. A career driven by male models her father (photographer) and her husband. Diego"s paintings: murals that tell a story about mexican life, class, culture. Flamboyant personality: defied definitions of beauty: unibrow, and facial mustache, even darkened them to pronounce her difference. Wardrobe: used her clothing as a statement of who she was. Europeans dress, sometimes traditional mexican dress, mexican peasant style hair most of the time. She is a living piece of mexican folk art. Cult of frida story of her life more appealing to people, her painting are illustrations of her life. Paintings function as memoir: life paintings, she is using art to tell her story. Shows her heart broken after she finds out the affair her sister and her husband had.
