SANTA FRIDA KAHLO, PINTORA Y MÁRTIR

Abstract

Within the context of contemporary Latin American art, the article examines and stresses the work and personality of the outstanding Mexican artist Frida Khalo (1907-1954), a self-taught painter whose original production is not only a constant autobiographical reference to her troubled and painful existence, but also reflects, with a peculiar half-naïve, half-fantastic style alien to all vanguard discourse, a series of native characteristics referring to Mexican vemacular and popular culture, dealing with themes related to folklore, religion and death. The art of Frida Khalo speaks out and seduces both in the way it is articulated and in its significance as expression of a sensibility and symbols of identity belonging to her own country. This latter serves as a pretext to...