Join us to learn about one of modern art’s most compelling artist.

Online talk (Zoom)

Friday 21 August, from 10 to 11:30 am

Cost: £ 10 (scroll down for payment button)

Frida Kahlo is among the most recognisable artists of the twentieth century, yet her work remains far more complex than the familiar image. This two-hour talk explores Kahlo as a modern painter whose art was both intensely personal and profoundly political.

Drawing on her self-portraits, we will examine how she transformed experiences of illness, disability, love, loss, and identity into a powerful visual language unlike any other.

Beyond her deeply personal painted works, we will consider how she carefully fashioned her own image, in order to engage with ideas of “Mexican-ess” central to the cultural and political debates of the time.

We will place Kahlo within the artistic and political currents of post-revolutionary Mexico, exploring her engagement with nationalism, indigenous culture, Marxism, and the international avant-garde. We will consider her often turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera, her connections to Surrealism, and the ways in which her paintings challenge conventional distinctions between private experience and public statement.

Photo above: Frida Kahlo in 1932, photographed by Guillermo Kahlo

This talk is part of the “One Friday, One Artist” series, please click here for more info and to see which previous talks are available as recordings: One Friday, One Artist (online talks)

Cost: £ 10

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