“Frida Kahlo.
Beyond the appearences"?
For the general public, unfamiliar with the hierarchy of art history, Frida la brune (July 6, 1907-July 13, 1954) is first and foremost an exotic figure, multicolored petticoats, a double braid tied with ribbons, a legendary single eyebrow and an assumed mustache shadow.
Since
Frida
(2002), the film by Julie Taymor, a great theater director, with Salma Hayek more Mexican than ever, she even entered pop culture.
While the estate fights for the rights to Barbie "Frida Kahlo" and other mugs bearing her likeness, the painter of heartbreaking self-portraits has gradually faded behind her own folklore.
It is another dimension, more complex, more carnal, deeper, that the exhibition at the Palais Galliera shows until March 5th.
Surrealist, like
Beauty and the Beast
, by Cocteau (1946), between marvels and dread.
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