frida Kahlo - フリーダ カーロ／スイカ人生万歳 3
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Frida Kahlo - フリーダ カーロ／スイカ人生万歳
Frida Kahlo - フリーダ カーロ／スイカ人生万歳 2
なんだか日本に戻っても鮮明に焼き付いているフリーダカーロの自画像とcasa azulのあの青い色。
彼女、どんな風に他者に自分をrepresentしたかったんだろう。
ちょくちょくバイセクシャルでもあったと言及されているけど、
本当にバイセクシャルだったのか、
それとも彼女自身が自らをそのように演出したかっただけなのか。
インターネットでざっと検索してみて、バイセクシャルでもあったという叙述はあっても、具体的に恋人の女性の名前などには遭遇しない。
彼女についていろいろ見ていくと、
ユダヤ系の血をひくというのも、彼女の自らの演出で、実際にはユダヤの血をひいていない
とか、
共産主義者だったとか、共産主義の運動家だったとかあるけど（多くの日本語ベースのリソースには”熱心な”共産主義者だったとある）、これも、どうだか疑わしいと言う見方も英語ベースのリソースには結構ある。
また、彼女のうまれた年(1907)も、数年前後させて、丁度メキシコ革命の勃発した年(1910)としたり、
結構人工的な手が加えられた演出があるように思えるような要素もある。
彼女についての本を機会を見つけて読んでみようと思う。
フリーダとディエゴの”関係”についての記述があったので、載せておきます。
Frida & Diego (from Lonely Planet Mexico city)
A century after Frida Kahlo's birth and 50 years after Diego Rivera's death, the pair's fame and recognition are stronger than ever, both internationally and within Mexico. in 2007, a retrospective of Kahlo's work at the Palocia de Bellas Artes attracted more than 44,000 visitors, though attendance at the Rivera survey that followed was not so phenomenal, the show reminded visitors that the prolific muralist had been an international star in his own lifetime. Their memory is inserparably linked, and both artists were frequent subjects in each other's work.
Diego Rivera first met Frida Kahlo, 21 years his junior, while painting at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, where she was a student in the 1920s. Rivera was already at the forefront of Mexican art and a socialist; his commission at the school was the first of many semipropagandistic murals on public buildings that he was to execute over three decades. he had already fathered children by two Russian women in Europe, and in 1922 married Lupe Marin in Mexico. She bore him two more children before their marriage broke up in 1928.
Kahlo was born in Coyoacan in 1907 to a Hungarian-Jewish father and an Oaxacan mother. She contracted polio at age six, which left her right leg permanently thinner than her left. in 1925 she was horribly injured in a trolley accident which broke her back, right leg, collarbone, pelvis and ribs. She made a miraculous recovery but suffered much pain thereafter and underwent many operations to try to alleviate it. it was during convalescene that she began painting. Pain - physical and emotional - was to be a dominating theme of her art.
Kahlo and Rivera both moved in left-wing artistic circles and met again in 1928; they married the following year. the liaison, described as 'a union between an elephant and a dove, ' was always a passionate love-hate affair. Rivera wrote "if I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait". Both had extramarital affairs.
In 1934, after a spell in the USA, the pair movd into a new home in San Angel, with seperate houses linked by an aerial walkway. After Kahlo discovered that Rivera had had an affair with her sister Christina, she divorced him in 1939, but they remarried the following year. She moved back into her childhood home, the Casa Azul (Blue House) in Coyoacan and he stayed at San Angel - a state of affairs that continued for the rest of their lives, through their relationship endured, too. Kahlo remained Rivera's most trusted critic, and Rivera was Kahlo's biggest fan.
Despite the worldwide wave of Fridamania that followed the hit biopic Frida in 2002, Kahlo had only one exhibition in Mexico in her lifetime, in 1953. she arrived at the opening on a stretcher. Rivera said of the exhibition, "anyone who attended it could not but marvel at her great talent." she died at the Blue House the following year. Rivera called the day of her death "the most tragic day of my life... too late I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida."
＜関連記事＞
Frida Kahlo - フリーダ カーロ／スイカ人生万歳
Frida Kahlo - フリーダ カーロ／スイカ人生万歳 2
なんだか日本に戻っても鮮明に焼き付いているフリーダカーロの自画像とcasa azulのあの青い色。
彼女、どんな風に他者に自分をrepresentしたかったんだろう。
ちょくちょくバイセクシャルでもあったと言及されているけど、
本当にバイセクシャルだったのか、
それとも彼女自身が自らをそのように演出したかっただけなのか。
インターネットでざっと検索してみて、バイセクシャルでもあったという叙述はあっても、具体的に恋人の女性の名前などには遭遇しない。
彼女についていろいろ見ていくと、
ユダヤ系の血をひくというのも、彼女の自らの演出で、実際にはユダヤの血をひいていない
とか、
共産主義者だったとか、共産主義の運動家だったとかあるけど（多くの日本語ベースのリソースには”熱心な”共産主義者だったとある）、これも、どうだか疑わしいと言う見方も英語ベースのリソースには結構ある。
また、彼女のうまれた年(1907)も、数年前後させて、丁度メキシコ革命の勃発した年(1910)としたり、
結構人工的な手が加えられた演出があるように思えるような要素もある。
彼女についての本を機会を見つけて読んでみようと思う。
フリーダとディエゴの”関係”についての記述があったので、載せておきます。
Frida & Diego (from Lonely Planet Mexico city)
A century after Frida Kahlo's birth and 50 years after Diego Rivera's death, the pair's fame and recognition are stronger than ever, both internationally and within Mexico. in 2007, a retrospective of Kahlo's work at the Palocia de Bellas Artes attracted more than 44,000 visitors, though attendance at the Rivera survey that followed was not so phenomenal, the show reminded visitors that the prolific muralist had been an international star in his own lifetime. Their memory is inserparably linked, and both artists were frequent subjects in each other's work.
Diego Rivera first met Frida Kahlo, 21 years his junior, while painting at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, where she was a student in the 1920s. Rivera was already at the forefront of Mexican art and a socialist; his commission at the school was the first of many semipropagandistic murals on public buildings that he was to execute over three decades. he had already fathered children by two Russian women in Europe, and in 1922 married Lupe Marin in Mexico. She bore him two more children before their marriage broke up in 1928.
Kahlo was born in Coyoacan in 1907 to a Hungarian-Jewish father and an Oaxacan mother. She contracted polio at age six, which left her right leg permanently thinner than her left. in 1925 she was horribly injured in a trolley accident which broke her back, right leg, collarbone, pelvis and ribs. She made a miraculous recovery but suffered much pain thereafter and underwent many operations to try to alleviate it. it was during convalescene that she began painting. Pain - physical and emotional - was to be a dominating theme of her art.
Kahlo and Rivera both moved in left-wing artistic circles and met again in 1928; they married the following year. the liaison, described as 'a union between an elephant and a dove, ' was always a passionate love-hate affair. Rivera wrote "if I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait". Both had extramarital affairs.
In 1934, after a spell in the USA, the pair movd into a new home in San Angel, with seperate houses linked by an aerial walkway. After Kahlo discovered that Rivera had had an affair with her sister Christina, she divorced him in 1939, but they remarried the following year. She moved back into her childhood home, the Casa Azul (Blue House) in Coyoacan and he stayed at San Angel - a state of affairs that continued for the rest of their lives, through their relationship endured, too. Kahlo remained Rivera's most trusted critic, and Rivera was Kahlo's biggest fan.
Despite the worldwide wave of Fridamania that followed the hit biopic Frida in 2002, Kahlo had only one exhibition in Mexico in her lifetime, in 1953. she arrived at the opening on a stretcher. Rivera said of the exhibition, "anyone who attended it could not but marvel at her great talent." she died at the Blue House the following year. Rivera called the day of her death "the most tragic day of my life... too late I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida."