Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair Neutral hues, an ill-fitting man's suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo's (1907-54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexican dress and…
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Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
Neutral hues, an ill-fitting man's suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo's (1907-54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexican dress and long plaits in Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940). In the wake of a divorce from artist Diego Rivera, Kahlo turns to her favorite genre, self-portraiture, to express her deepest emotional and psychological urges. Nevertheless, the painting remains unmistakably Kahlo's.
Now that you're without it I no longer love you," the work oscillates between evocations of a popular culture shared by many and unflinching forays into the private sphere. Inscribed with the lyrics of a popular song that translate as "Look, if I loved you it was for your hair. Curator Jodi Roberts' essay, too, moves between the public and the private as it situates Kahlo's painting in the context of the Mexican Revolution's legacy, the Surrealist
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