Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular by Frida Kahlo, Layla Bermeo - 9780878468881

Name: Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular by Frida Kahlo, Layla Bermeo - 9780878468881
Brand: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston

Museum of Fine Arts,Boston

Frida Kahlo and Arte PopularAuthor(s): Frida Kahlo, Layla Bermeo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, United States\nImprint: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston\nISBN-13: 9780878468881, 978-0878468881\nSynopsis\nHow Kahlo collected, celebrated and depicted Mexican folk arts in both her painting and her persona\n\nThe visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo [tel] drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popularpainted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys, and other objects created in Mexicos rural and Indigenous communities. The hundreds of folk-art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and her fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mch and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self-presentation, playing on modernist fascination with folk culture a.