by Paulina Olszanka at Air Mail: During her divorce from the artist Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo began work on a masterpiece that gave voice to her anger at the infidelities of a man who described himself as a “depraved victim” of his “own appetites”.
At the peak of her career after her first solo exhibitions in New York and Paris, Kahlo’s work, The Wounded Table, was unveiled in 1940 in Mexico City. More here.
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by Holly Williams at BBC: You know Frida Kahlo – of course you do. She is the most famous female artist of all time, and her image is instantly recognisable, and unavoidable. Kahlo can be found everywhere, on T-shirts and notebooks and mugs. While writing this piece, I spotted a selection of cutesy cartoon Kahlo merchandise in the window of a shop, maybe three minutes’ walk from my home. I bet many readers are similarly in striking distance of some representation of her, with her monobrow and traditional Mexican clothing, her flowery headbands and red lipstick.
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