Sunday, March 29, 2009
8:35 PM
Artist:Frida Kahlo
Year:1938
Title:Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Leon Trotsky)
Size:308 x 400 - 29k
The Lenin portrait was a reflection of both Diego and Frida being communists, and active in the revolution movement in Mexico, where they returned late in 1933. Diego was a supporter of Leon Trotsky,who stalin had ousted from the Soviet Union, a few years after the death of Lenin, and Diego helped Trotsky move to Mexico early in 1937. There Leon and his wife Natalia got to stay in Frida's house in Coyoacan, the Casa Azul. Frida was very fond of Trotsky, and they had a very brief affair. For Leon's birthday November 7th, Frida painted the Between the Curtains portrait for him:
Center. This mural included a portrait of lenin, the founder of soviet union, and such a portrait was politically incorrect. Ultimately the Crossroads mural was chipped to dust and destroyed.
Name:Phyllis Guo Yuen Hong
Register Number:22
Class:2A
Information provided by:
->http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jc17cN-Em0k/SUEiFv8GHWI/AAAAAAAAEn4/5kKaQ7Rg99w/s400/kahlo16.jpg&imgrefurl=http://oligopoly.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/el-frida-kahlo-x-a-timeline-of-her-life/&usg=__uElSuH8dMwS-GMIA6PWKp9RiE3M=&h=400&w=308&sz=29&hl=en&start=13&um=1&tbnid=M6g0KwiwQEZOdM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3DFrida%2BKahlo%2BLenin%2Bportrait%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1
->http://www.fbuch.com/fridaby.htm
Year:1938
Title:Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Leon Trotsky)
Size:308 x 400 - 29k
The Lenin portrait was a reflection of both Diego and Frida being communists, and active in the revolution movement in Mexico, where they returned late in 1933. Diego was a supporter of Leon Trotsky,who stalin had ousted from the Soviet Union, a few years after the death of Lenin, and Diego helped Trotsky move to Mexico early in 1937. There Leon and his wife Natalia got to stay in Frida's house in Coyoacan, the Casa Azul. Frida was very fond of Trotsky, and they had a very brief affair. For Leon's birthday November 7th, Frida painted the Between the Curtains portrait for him:
Center. This mural included a portrait of lenin, the founder of soviet union, and such a portrait was politically incorrect. Ultimately the Crossroads mural was chipped to dust and destroyed.
Name:Phyllis Guo Yuen Hong
Register Number:22
Class:2A
Information provided by:
->http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jc17cN-Em0k/SUEiFv8GHWI/AAAAAAAAEn4/5kKaQ7Rg99w/s400/kahlo16.jpg&imgrefurl=http://oligopoly.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/el-frida-kahlo-x-a-timeline-of-her-life/&usg=__uElSuH8dMwS-GMIA6PWKp9RiE3M=&h=400&w=308&sz=29&hl=en&start=13&um=1&tbnid=M6g0KwiwQEZOdM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3DFrida%2BKahlo%2BLenin%2Bportrait%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1
->http://www.fbuch.com/fridaby.htm
