Even though Frida was not happy with her portrait of Miguel Lira, which I discuss in the 9/24 post, according to one of her letters to Alejandro in July of 1927, Miguel submitted a photograph of it to a magazine called Panorama. What's interesting is that she says this first issue of Panorama will also feature "Diego." I'm assuming she means Diego Rivera. This is a foreshadowing of what's to come. Approximately two years after she writes this letter, she marries Diego. Approximately three years after Frida writes the letter, she is in San Francisco with Diego. This is also fascinating because she wrote to Alejandro on more than one occasion about her desire to travel, including a trip to the United States.
It's fascinating to look back on our lives to see how our paths twisted and turned. At the time, it can seem as if our lives are stagnant, but with hindsight, the moments of stagnation can be viewed as important pauses in our personal development. For Frida, the hours, days, months, and years of recovery after the bus/trolley accident were unbearable at times. Reading her letters, we can feel her physical and emotional pain. Even when Miguel is submitting the photograph of Frida's portrait of him to Panorama, she is still in a plaster corset, yet, she needed this time to reflect, to muster her strong will, and to paint. Now, I want to look up Panorama to see if Frida's painting was reproduced in it and if Diego Rivera's work was also featured. Let me know if you know anything about it.
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JJ
10/3/2014 05:34:35 am
I did some Internet searching for Panorama magazine in the 1920s and I didn't find anything, so I will be interested to know what you are able to find. It's always interesting to look at old magazines because they seem to capture the feeling of the time. When we look at Frida Kahlo's art today, we are looking from our present time perspective. But what did her art look like at the time it was created? That's something that interests me.
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Celia Stahr teaches art history at the University of San Francisco. She’s interested in women artists and artists who cross cultural boundaries. She fell in love with the power of Frida Kahlo's art in the 1980s, a feeling that has intensified over the years. Frida in America took 10 years to research and write, but Stahr never lost interest in this fascinating woman and artist.
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