Kahlo - Basic Art Series, Book

Pain and passion.
The original and intimate art of Mexico's most famous painter.
Frida Kahlo's (1907-1954) striking images were, in many ways, expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal car accident at the age of 18, health problems, a turbulent marriage, miscarriages and childlessness, she transformed her afflictions into revolutionary art. In literal or metaphorical self-portraits, Kahlo looks at the viewer with an audacious gaze, rejecting her fate as a passive victim and interweaving expressions of her experience into a surreal-real hybrid language of life: hair, roots, veins, vines, tentacles and fallopian tubes.

Many of her works also explore the communist political ideals that Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as "the most sincere and real thing I could do to express what I felt inside and outside myself." This book presents an extraordinary selection of Kahlo's works that explore her uncompromising determination as an artist, her importance as a painter, feminist icon and pioneer of Latin American culture.