Collection of paintings and letters of Frida Kahlo declared fake

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Expected future products in the United States in November 2009 a book on Frida Kahlo, in which experts described a previously unknown collection of letters, diaries and paintings by Mexican artist, has been the subject of scandal: Many experts argue that the entire collection - a fake. Details the newspapers The Guardian and The Art Newspaper.
Author of the book "Finding Frida Kahlo" ( "In Search of Frida Kahlo", publisher Princeton Architectural Press) Barbara Levine (Barbara Levine), in the past - Exhibition Director Museum of Contemporary Art San Francisco, describes the archive Calo, owned by Mexican curator Carlos Noyole ( Carlos Noyola) and Leticia Fernandez (Leticia Fernandez) from the town of San Miguel de Allende. Csete, according to Levine, a collection inherited from an unidentified lawyer, who in turn received it from some woodcarver. The latter in 1200 subjects, constituting archive, gave herself Fried. The cost of collection has not been disclosed, and Noyola says he was not going to sell it, either now or in the future.
Collection Noyoly not researched any of the recognized experts on creativity Frida Kahlo. The very author of the book, too, does not undertake to judge its authenticity. However, Mexican heritage specialists Kahlo has appealed to the National Council for Culture and the Arts and the National Institute of Fine Arts with the requirement to protect the heritage of the artist, to stop the offensive fakes and explain their views on the situation with the book Levine. In particular, the director of the Museum of Frida Kahlo, Carlos Phillips Olmedo he called material from the book "Finding Frida Kahlo" "grotesque and vulgar."
(Lenta.ru)

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Strong was a woman ...
Perhaps the best explanation of "the phenomenon of Frida" Diego Rivera gave himself: "For the first time in the history of art woman expressed with absolute frankness, both naked, and we can say with quiet ferocity the general and particular, which is inherent to the woman."

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Excellent artist! I like it (especially "Two Frida") five years ago had the opportunity to buy graphics Rivera and Kahlo. Until now, sorry I did not. And looking at her now, "Moses or the grain of the universe, you know where Ilya Glazunov spied the idea for his" Grand Experiment ": D

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Once was at the premiere of the film "Frida", the screenplay was written by the book Hayden Herrera Frida: Biography of Frida Kahlo. " Later read that in the film were involved in these paintings of Frida. Niece of Frida Kahlo was so impressed by the film that Salma Hayek has given the necklace of the artist.

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Vivian, I liked the movie too: If you have not seen, I advise to look!

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The real life of Frida no less dramatic than a movie about it ...

Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City in 1907godu. It is the third daughter Gulermo and Matilda Kahlo. Father a photographer, by origin - a Jew, a native of Germany. Mother - a Spaniard, born in America. In six years, Frida ill polio, and then remained limp. "Frida - a wooden leg" - brutally teased her peers. And it in spite of all swam and played soccer with the boys and even boxing. At the foot pulled a 3-4 stocking to look as healthy. Physical defect helped to hide pants, and after marriage - the long traditional dresses, which are so far in the state Oahakayu.
Life of Frida changed dramatically rainy evening Sept. 17, 1925, when the car in which rode Frida with school friend, collided with a tram. The blow was so strong that the guy kicked out of the car. But he got off easy - only a concussion, can not be said about Freda. Broken iron rod current collector trolley stuck in the stomach and left in the groin, smashing the hip bone. In three places had been damaged spine, two broken hips. His right leg, withered polio, was broken in eleven locations. Thirty-two times Frida traveled on the operating table. This is a unique world record. In addition, it constantly obsessed about the possible manifestation of hereditary diseases: the father suffered from epilepsy.
Doctors could not vouch for her life. Frida Kahlo was then 18 years.
Began agonizing months motionless inactivity. It was at this time, she asked her father's brush and paints. For Frida made a special stretcher, you can write lying down. Under the canopy of the bed a large mirror attached to Frida could see myself. She began with self-portraits. "I write for myself because I spend a lot of time alone, and because it is a theme that you know best."
In 1922, against everything and everybody, Frida Kahlo entered the most prestigious Institute of Mexico (national preparatory school).
Their first meeting occurred when Frieda, still a teenager, she saw Diego Rivera to paint the walls of the Higher Preparatory School. He hit her childish imagination, she tracked him, teased the "old Fastow, tried to attract attention, and once, as if anticipating their common future, said a school friend:" I will certainly marry this macho and face from his son. "

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While Diego was the "first guy" of the Mexican painters of the time, and only Alfaro Siqueiros could compete with him. He was a sincere Communist, a fighter with the bourgeoisie, popular among the common folk speaker. In the former Soviet Union, Rivera was especially popular in the 60 years, but his wife's name always secretly held back. Of course, because Lev Davidovich Trotsky, his friendship with Diego who have forgiven, and Freda for some reason - no.
Diego was huge and fat. Growing tufts of hair, protruding from the excitation or vice versa, covered his eyes swollen eyelids. Sam Rivera himself liked to depict as bellied frog with someone heart in his hand. Its always adored women, Diego reciprocated, but once admitted: "The more I love women, the more I want to make them suffer."
Their family life is seething passions. They could not always be together, but never - apart. They attributed the relationship, according to one of his friends, "a passionate, obsessive and sometimes painful." In 1934, Diego Rivera, Frida has changed with her younger sister, Christine, posing him. After that discovery, realizing that offends his wife, but to sever relations with it would not. Beat for Frida was cruel. Proud, she did not want the pain to share with anyone - just threw it on the canvas. The result was a painting, perhaps the most tragic in her work: a nude female body excised bloody wounds. Near the knife in his hand, with an indifferent man who inflicted these wounds.
Diego Frida changed life, from which she suffered terribly. Frida help and support throughout Diego, accompanied him on trips and exhibitions. Frida always wanted a child, but because of injuries received in his youth it every time miscarriage.
Note that at any self-portrait Frida is not smiles: a serious, even sorrowful face, thick eyebrows knit, slightly prominent black mustache over his lips tightly compressed sensual. The idea of her paintings is encoded in the details, background, the figures that appear next to Frida. Symbols of the artist, say critics, is based on national traditions and is closely related to Indian mythology of pre-Hispanic period. Frida Kahlo brilliantly knew the history of his homeland. Many genuine monuments of ancient culture that Diego and Frida collected all his life, is now in the garden of the "blue house".
You can have different attitudes to creativity itself Frida, but it must be admitted that in her work revealed the cruelty and a certain percentage of shamelessness peculiar to this outstanding woman. On a shelf in her office surrounded by books on anatomy, physiology and psychology (she seriously studied medicine, looked into the theory of Freud, even became the first all influenced by psychoanalysis in Mexico) was the subject, as if brought back out of the Museum. As a reminder of the unborn child was standing by the vessel with zaspirtovannym human embryo.
Shortly before the death of her amputated right leg, her pain turned into a torture, but she found the strength to open the latest exhibition in the spring of 1953. Shortly before the appointed time, gathered to hear the sirens. This is an ambulance, accompanied by an escort of motorcyclists, from the hospital after the operation came culprit celebration. Its made on a stretcher and placed on a bed in the center of the room. Frida joked, sang their favorite sentimental songs to the accompaniment of the orchestra "Mariachi", smoking and drinking, hoping that alcohol will help relieve the pain. That unforgettable performance shook photographers, reporters and fans. Just like the last, posthumous, 13 July 1954, when her body wrapped in the flag Mexican Communist Party, in the hall crematorium came to say goodbye crowd of fans.
Frida Kahlo died of pneumonia a week after celebrating its 47 anniversary, on Tuesday 13 July 1954. The next day, relatives have gathered all of her favorite jewelry: antique, even pre-Columbian times, the necklace, the cheap simple little things of seashells, which she liked - and put it all in a gray coffin was set in "Belyas Artes - Palace of Fine Arts.
Elena Kuzichev

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In Mexico City, the Museum of Frida Kahlo exhibition is being held " Treasures of the Blue House, Frida and Diego " - personal belongings, photographs and letters belonging to the spouses artists Frida Kahlo /Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera /Diego Rivera.
 
The exposition includes artifacts never exhibited before: the first two photos taken and signed by Kahlo, never before exhibited paintings Rivera and others, but this is only the "tip of the iceberg," as Ricardo Perez Escamilla, curator of the exhibition. Among other things, shows the photo of Frida with a toy bus and a doll dramatizes an accident. Plots of this kind - a consequence of a car accident in which Frida got in his youth.

Frida Kahlo died in 1957 at age 47, her husband died three years later. Rivera asked not to publish the archive of his wife for 15 years. He instructed the exhibits of contemporary Mexican art collector and his latest lover - Dolores Olmedo.
She bequeathed the archive set is only after his death.
Contents of boxes with things Kahlo, uncovered in 2002, is still cataloged.
Inside were found thousands of photos, documents, magazines, publications of, a lot of clothes and toys that belonged to the famous couple.