Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair by Jodi Roberts

Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair by Jodi Roberts

An accessible and in-depth study of Frida Kahlo, one of the most beloved artists in MoMA's collection .

Though the Surrealists adopted Frida Kahlo as one of their own, the painter maintained that she did 'not know if my paintings are Surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expression of myself.' She produced numerous self-portraits, each one an articulation of different facets of herself and her eventful life. Kahlo painted Self- Portrait with Cropped Hair in the wake of a particularly tumultuous time, just months after she divorced her famous husband, Mexican Muralist painter Diego Rivera. He had always admired her long, dark hair, which, as she indicates in the tresses littering the painting, she had cut off after their split. She also shows herself in an oversized suit resembling the ones that Rivera wore. Through such emotionally and symbolically charged details, Kahlo expresses her feelings about her relationship with Rivera while also asserting her sense of self as an independent artist

Natalia Brizuela is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Jodi Roberts is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. This book is published to accompany an exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781633450752
ISBN 10	1633450759
Title	Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
Author	Jodi Roberts
Series	Moma One On One Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Museum of Modern Art
Year published	2019-06-27
Number of pages	48
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.