Frida Kahlo Was a Painter, a Brand Builder, a Survivor. And So Much More | NY Times
Comfort with cross-dressing came early on. In a family portrait, by her father, the photographer Guillermo Kahlo, a teenage Kahlo wears a suit and parts and tucks her hair like a natty chap. Emmy Lou Packard’s 1941 photograph shows Kahlo in cuffed dungarees, smoking a cigarette. 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.
Frida Kahlo has always been an interesting and amazing artist in the art world. Her work and life continue to be told in art history. Her work contains colorful self-portraits that explore identity and the human body. Most of her artwork is feminine usually with flowers or creatures. After she divorced her ex-husband, she created a self-portrait wearing men's clothes, telling the public she is independent.
“Kahlo suffered extensively for much of her life, and the most moving section of the show is devoted to her ecosystem of medical devices. 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.”
Through pain and loss, Kahlo’s trauma has changed her life, perspective, and art. If it were anyone else, I feel like they would have given up with how much pain they would experience for the rest of their lives. Kahlo became confident and realized her self-worth as a painter. She doesn’t hide her experience from the world but openly shares it.
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