Self Portrait On The Borderline Between Mexico And The United States. Self Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States Blue Island Press The artist shows herself on the border between the two countries, anchoring her body in an uncertain space, hovering between two identities: Mexican and American. When Kahlo painted this work, she was in the United States with her husband, the artist Diego Rivera
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The artist shows herself on the border between the two countries, anchoring her body in an uncertain space, hovering between two identities: Mexican and American. In Frida Kahlo's 1932 oil, Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and The United States, the sun rises and sets above Mexico, and nearby, a cloud cushions the moon.She stands upright, straddling the border
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In Self-Portrait on the Border Line a fire-spitting sun and a quarter moon are enclosed in cumulus clouds that, when they touch, create a bolt of lightning When Kahlo painted this work, she was in the United States with her husband, the artist Diego Rivera Her vision of America's essence was plainly negative, reduced down to the cogs and wheels of its industrial arm.
Frida painting SelfPortrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States. Her vision of America's essence was plainly negative, reduced down to the cogs and wheels of its industrial arm. Her distinctive personal style, her tempestuous marriage to Diego Rivera , and her stoicism in the face of physical pain have endeared her to millions.
SelfPortrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States, 1932 McGaw Graphics. In Self Portrait Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States (1932) Kahlo stands statue like on a boundary stone inscribed 'Carmen Rivera painted her portrait in 1932' On the right, we see the industrialized United States represented by the Ford River Rouge plant, sky scrapers, and modern inventions; and on the left, ancient Mexico is represented with verdant plant life, examples of indigenous art, and Aztec iconography.