Frida Kahlo, La chair ouverte

The article deals with the political commitment and with the report of identification of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) with strong feminine figures of the Mexican culture, that they are legendary or historic. This phenomenon retranscribed in her paintings allowed her to investigate themes such as the body...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julie Crenn
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Mnémosyne 2008-07-01
Series:Genre & Histoire
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/237
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1841551243148787712
author Julie Crenn
author_facet Julie Crenn
author_sort Julie Crenn
collection DOAJ
description The article deals with the political commitment and with the report of identification of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) with strong feminine figures of the Mexican culture, that they are legendary or historic. This phenomenon retranscribed in her paintings allowed her to investigate themes such as the body of the women, women’s condition or still the oppressive patriarcalism. She expressed women’s suffer of loosing child, desperate women, different kind of wounds (wounds of body and wounds of sentiments) through several self-portraits. She did not hesitate to draw from her personal experience to deal with subjects considered as taboos in the years 1930-1950, what makes of her a premature feminist artist symbolizing the American slogan lauded at the beginning of 1970’s « The personal is political ».
format Article
id doaj-art-90d0b513bfec498dbc3d5c4b4280b729
institution Kabale University
issn 2102-5886
language fra
publishDate 2008-07-01
publisher Association Mnémosyne
record_format Article
series Genre & Histoire
spelling doaj-art-90d0b513bfec498dbc3d5c4b4280b7292025-01-09T16:22:44ZfraAssociation MnémosyneGenre & Histoire2102-58862008-07-01210.4000/genrehistoire.237Frida Kahlo, La chair ouverteJulie CrennThe article deals with the political commitment and with the report of identification of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) with strong feminine figures of the Mexican culture, that they are legendary or historic. This phenomenon retranscribed in her paintings allowed her to investigate themes such as the body of the women, women’s condition or still the oppressive patriarcalism. She expressed women’s suffer of loosing child, desperate women, different kind of wounds (wounds of body and wounds of sentiments) through several self-portraits. She did not hesitate to draw from her personal experience to deal with subjects considered as taboos in the years 1930-1950, what makes of her a premature feminist artist symbolizing the American slogan lauded at the beginning of 1970’s « The personal is political ».https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/237
spellingShingle Julie Crenn
Frida Kahlo, La chair ouverte
Genre & Histoire
title Frida Kahlo, La chair ouverte
title_full Frida Kahlo, La chair ouverte
title_fullStr Frida Kahlo, La chair ouverte
title_full_unstemmed Frida Kahlo, La chair ouverte
title_short Frida Kahlo, La chair ouverte
title_sort frida kahlo la chair ouverte
url https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/237
work_keys_str_mv AT juliecrenn fridakahlolachairouverte