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Frida Kahlo Was a Painter, a Brand Builder, a Survivor. And So Much More | NY Times
Quote 1: "For “Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair,” in 1940, with scissors and musical notes, she returns to men’s wear with a baggy suit like those worn by her ex-husband. (They had recently divorced.) Shorn in spite, her cropped cut re-establishes her independence."
Response: This particular portrait is actually one of my favorite pieces that Kahlo did because it spoke to me on a personal level. I love the way she plays with gender expression in such a flippant way which was hard to see in the era and region she grew up in.
Quote 2: "But Kahlo did not conceal her pain, revealing her casts and leather braces with metal buckles in her work and turning her plaster corsets into art with elaborate designs of flowers, even a hammer and sickle. “She treated these second skins as canvases,” Ms. Small said."
Response: I think it's important for people in general to show their pain. Life and the general mindset atleast here in America makes keeping yourself robotic seem like a badge of honor, but in reality it's dooming us to an apathetic society and statistically the emotionally stunted die younger.
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