Frida (Portrait of a Goddess)

Author: He Xi wrote
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Frida Kahlo, a renowned female painter from Mexico, is famous worldwide for her self-portraits, which also serve as annotations to her legendary life. However, behind her bizarre and fantastical artworks, what kind of truth lies hidden? The Frida behind the mirror, necklace, love, gender, animals and plants, politics, illness, surrealism, and glory is the one we truly want to touch and understand. This book attempts to delve into her life, her suffering, and the hidden meanings of her works through a series of Frida's paintings, deciphering the codes of her art and her legendary life. Is Frida Kahlo a goddess? In Mexico and the United States, Frida is revered with fervent devotion. What kind of painter was she? A courtesan, a woman whose bus was pierced? A woman lying in bed undergoing surgery after surgery, arguing with her burly husband Riviera, engaging in affairs with both men and women, yet creating works that shock the world? This book is a spiritual biography of Frida, as well as a decryption of the codes in her paintings—her symbols are all living realities, though deliberately cloaked in surreal illusions. Behind these seemingly bizarre scenes, what kind of story of blood and tears lies hidden? The author analyzes the causes and effects of Frida's paintings from nine perspectives: the mirror, the necklace, love, separation, animals and plants, politics, illness, surrealism, and the glory behind Frida. These analyses delve into the reasons behind Frida's tears in her paintings, the origins of her suffering, and the hidden meanings of the monkeys, ribbons, plant backgrounds, characters, and clothing.