Frida Kahlo (Biografía)

Frida Kahlo (Biografía)

Año: 2008

Duración: 52:26 Minutos

Audio: Castellano

Subtitulos: No

 Sinopsis:

Magdalena del Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, mejor conocida como Frida Kahlo (n. Coyoacán, Ciudad de México; 6 de julio de 1907 – 13 de julio de 1954) fue una destacada pintora mexicana.

Su vida quedó marcada por el sufrimiento físico que comenzó con la poliomielitis que contrajo en 1913 y continuó con diversas enfermedades, lesiones, accidentes y operaciones. Esta primera enfermedad le dejó una secuela permanente: la pierna derecha mucho más delgada que la izquierda.

El aburrimiento que le provocaba su postración la llevó a empezar a pintar: en 1926, todavía en su convalecencia, pintó su primer autorretrato, el primero de una larga serie en la cual expresará los eventos de su vida y sus reacciones emocionales ante los mismos. La mayoría de sus pinturas las realizará estirada en su cama y en el baño. Sin embargo su gran fuerza y energía por vivir le permitieron una importante recuperación.

Murió en Coyoacán el 13 de julio de 1954. No se realizó ninguna autopsia . Fue velada en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de México y su féretro fue cubierto con la bandera del Partido Comunista mexicano, un hecho que fue muy criticado por toda la prensa nacional. Su cuerpo fue incinerado y sus cenizas las alberga la Casa Azul de Coyoacán, lugar que la vio nacer.

Sus últimas palabras en su diario fueron: “Espero que la marcha sea feliz y espero no volver jamás”.

A los cuatro años de su muerte, la Casa Azul se convirtió en el Museo Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo - La Cinta Que Envuelve Una Bomba
Hija del fotógrafo alemán Guillermo Kahlo Kaufmann, la pintora Frida Kahlo nació en la ciudad de México en 1907 y sufrió en 1925 un accidente que marcaría el resto de su vida y de su creación. Contrajo matrimonio con Diego Rivera en dos ocasiones; fue una activa participante del trotskismo y anfitriona del matrimonio Trotsky en México; trabó amistad con André Breton y tomó parte durante toda su vida en diversos actos de la izquierda nacional, pero ni la personalidad abrumadora del muralista Rivera, ni la celebridad de sus amistades o su militancia política ocultan lo más importante: su autoría de una obra única, vinculada estrechamente con su persona y su pertenencia a una brillante generación de creadoras mexicanas que cambiarían la historia del arte nacional durante el período de entreguerras. Fallecida en 1953, el mismo año que una exposición individual de su obra fue presentada en la Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Frida Kahlo sería revalorada en las décadas siguientes hasta ser considerada -según varias voces- como la pintora latinoamericana más importante del siglo XX. Este documental presenta, mediante el uso de fotografías familiares, videos y comentarios de los parientes de Kahlo, algunas facetas de la vida privada de la artista, como sus problemas físicos, su bisexualidad o el amor devoto que profesaba hacia Diego Rivera, además del desarrollo de su particular estilo pictórico.

Bernice Kolko

Kahlo by Kolko

Bernice Kolko, was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States with her family at the end of the first World War. In 1932 she began her photographic career during a trip to Vienna, Austria where she worked with the celebrated Rudolph Koppitz. In 1934, upon her return to the United States, she settled in New York and had an exhibition at the gallery of the RKO radio station at Rockefeller Center. She participated with the Works Project Administration Project, an undertaking that gave great impetus to the arts after the Great Depression.
At the beginning of the Second World War, Kolko enlisted in the American Army and worked as a photographer. At the end of the war, she traveled to Los Angeles and worked with Man Ray; her experimental projects of that period include superimposed and solarized images, as well as work with abstract shapes. When she arrived in Mexico City in 1951, she had already had her work shown at several exhibitions, and received immediate media attention.
During the first year of her stay, she began a friendship with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, the Siqueiros and the Chavez Morado family; she began a photographic project that dealt with Mexican artists and intellectuals of the time. Diego Rivera wrote:
"Her photographs have seemed to me to possess the highest technical quality, sensibility, curiosity and excellent taste. She chooses what is essential and which best expresses the subjects she chooses; her works are truly notable. In my opinion hers is the work of a great artist" .
Kolko traveled throughout the country, creating a trove of thousands of images while always calibrating intellectual and artistic work. Out of those trips her project Mujeres de México—Women of Mexico—was born.
Sophia Vackimes, Curator

Frida Kahlo in her garden at Coyoacán, 1952

FRIDA KAHLO Traveling Exhibit
    

THE DIARY OF FRIDA KAHLO, AN INTIMATE SELF-PORTRAIT

1 January 1953
xxxx 1953, Winter
Bernice Kolko
I think she
is a great art-
ist. She photographs re-
ality admir-
ably. (she is not a
Communist) An
American
citizen - Hungarian Jew
She says she is for
peace, but ........?

LOLA ALVAREZ BRAVO

"I look for the essence of beings and of things, their spirit, their reality. Interest, experience, moral and aesthetic commitment, form the third eye of the photographer. There are those who focus it on the landscape; I feel attracted to human beings."


Lola Alvarez Bravo began her career as a photographer in the midst of the artistic and political ferment that followed the Mexican Revolution. In the 1920's and'30s, she moved in the artistic circles of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. Mexico's socialistgovernment promoted intellectual freedom and a greater public role for the arts, which in turn attracted to Mexico cultural leaders from around the world. Sergey Einstein, André Breton, D.H. Lawrence, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Paul Strand and Henri Cartier-Bresson are only a few of the figures drawn to the country by a heady idealism and the opportunity to escape convention. When Lola and her husband, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, first took up photography in the late 1920s, there was hardly a more auspicious moment or place to become a visual artist.

Lola Alvarez Bravo was Mexicos first woman photographer and her career is exceptional both for its remarkable range and for the compelling quality of her work. Approaching photography from multiple angels, she worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, and professional portraitist, while also creating intensely personal images of people, places and things throughout her native Mexico. In addition, she played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene, as an inspiring teacher of photography, as a friend of innumerable artists and writers (many of whom she photographed), and as owner of a prestigious gallery that represented the first solo show by her friend Frida Kahlo, the subject of some of Alvarez Bravos most powerful portraits. Lola Alvarez Bravo moved to Mexico City from her home town of Jalisco at age three, and Mexico City remained her home base for the rest of her long life except for two years in Oaxaca with her then husband, Manuel Alvarez Bravo. She began making photographs, under his tutelage, in 1926 and continued photographing for the next sixty years. Although some of her photographs reflect Manuels influence the share the same cameras and often the same roll of film Lola achieved her own aesthetic during the 1940s and 50s concentrating on two particularly vivid bodies of work: portraiture and street photography. In these engaging images she found a way to reveal a lyricism in the world around her, producing quiet reveries of life lived in the moment.
- excerpt from the book: Lola Alvarez Bravo by Elizabeth Ferrer
Aperture Foundation Books ISBN13:978-1-931788-94-6
Music: Elliot Goldenthal , Chavela Vargas, Lila Downs
from the soundtrack to the film Frida.

La real Frida Kahlo

Manuel Alvarez Bravo -
Frida con las manos retorcidas

 

Frida Kahlo, autorretrato como tehuana