there’s a lot of Frida all over tumblr, but shockingly, no one seems to have started an all-Frida tumblr… so i did. i’m often reblogging with text from frida fans or people who blogged something of frida because they are inspired by her. i decided to do this, to leave other people’s words and thoughts and even rambling, perhaps seemingly barely related, posts because i think it speaks to how we each interpret frida. i find it very interesting to see how someone else connects with frida, and i hope viewers of this blog might find it interesting as well. i also apologize in advance for any repetitiveness. in an effort to find “new” things to post, i hope viewers can understand that i may forget what i posted at another time and repost it again. to my mind, it’s all about frida anyway and i learn something new with each view, so i hope others can view this blog in that same spirit or overlook my own frida-love neurosis. if you have photos, links, quotes, or other things you’d like to share for this blog, please send them to me at fridakahlolove@gmail.comTumblr (3.0; @fridakahlorocks)http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq1cul7fPc1qz5g0no1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://deltafoxtrot.tumblr.com/post/188874328" target="_blank">deltafoxtrot</a>:</p> <blockquote><a href="http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/alvarez_bravo/alvarez_bravo_frida_kahlo_full.html" target="_blank">Masters of Photography: Manuel Alvarez Bravo</a></blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/188875873http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/188875873Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:22:47 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpo6ma16E51qzt1gmo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://amandaw.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">amandaw</a>)</p>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/183067261http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/183067261Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:37:49 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpmq6mnZtR1qzi6ulo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ofrenda dedicada a la mayor exponente de la pintura mexicana Frida Kahlo (via Pepe15) </p>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182442284http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182442284Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:44:46 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpmq2cuKRB1qzi6ulo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>set of 2 paintings, acrylic on stretched canvas (via <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkstone/2531601985/">popartdks</a>)</p>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182440494http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182440494Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:42:12 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpmpz6o9VU1qzi6ulo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Art To Wear shoulder bag via <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arttoweardiva/2531163716/">ArttoWearDiva</a></p> <p>see etsy store also <a target="_blank" href="http://www.arttoweardiva.etsy.com">here</a></p>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182439245http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182439245Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:40:18 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpmpu2kXfs1qzi6ulo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>frida kahlo angel collage via <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/audreyeclectic/2544296027/">audreyeclectic</a></p>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182437151http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182437151Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:37:14 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpmpqwUA5k1qzi6ulo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>handbound mini book via <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paperfection/3220850563/in/set-72157609390400015/">paperfection</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Frida Kahlo with her trademark unibrow, a stern and somewhat sad look in her eyes and roses in her hair. </p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182435713http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182435713Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:35:20 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpmpjog85S1qzi6ulo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23677702@N05/3117508668/">jeloid</a></p>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182432507http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/182432507Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:31:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/Lt9jjLQquqbze3zhpBMyoleIo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://materialworld.tumblr.com/post/181057882/in-need-of-human-compassion-shelter-out-impact" target="_blank">materialworld</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.outimpact.com/features/news-features/northeast/new-york-city/in-need-of-human-compassion-shelter-331-95" target="_blank">In Need Of Human Compassion: Shelter | Out Impact</a></p> <p>“Role Models” by photographer <a href="http://www.luckymichaels.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lucky Micheals</a>- from a book ‘Shelter’ about queer youth living in the NYC shelter Sylvia’s Place. I can never get my head around figures like there being roughly 8 000 homeless queer youth in NYC alone.</p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/181165053http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/181165053Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:03:34 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kotnp5uOvR1qzkd54o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://daliya.tumblr.com/post/181062092/tobia-chicadecuba-via-sweetcreams-frida" target="_blank">daliya</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://tobia.tumblr.com/post/180935728" target="_blank">tobia</a>:</p> <blockquote><a href="http://chicadecuba.tumblr.com/post/180421711/via-sweetcreams" target="_blank">chicadecuba</a>: (via <a href="http://sweetcreams.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">sweetcreams</a>) <b>Frida Kahlo</b></blockquote> <p>I am developing a crush on this woman.</p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/181161961http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/181161961Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:57:27 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpfaejd4jB1qznvs2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lalilster.tumblr.com/post/179226471/bracelet-made-with-my-own-original-artwork" target="_blank">lalilster</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“bracelet made with my own original artwork called: Un cigarillo, flores y Frida - a cigarette, flowers and Frida - artwork adhered to bamboo tiles”</p> <p>Frida Kahlo bracelet (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/estudiomartita" target="_blank">estudiomartita</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/179229177http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/179229177Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:24:34 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp3y4m7P7x1qztkl8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>now reblogging for amandaw’s truthiness! :)</p> <p><a href="http://amandaw.tumblr.com/post/174307276/fridakahlorocks-yes-i-am-aware-i-have-blogged" target="_blank">amandaw</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/174219122/yes-i-am-aware-i-have-blogged-this-painting" target="_blank">fridakahlorocks</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>yes, i am aware i have blogged this painting before but am reblogging it for all the text that is added here bcuz some folks may find it interesting. :)</p> <p><a href="http://sexismandthecity.tumblr.com/post/174216040/frida-kahlo-tree-of-hope-this-self-portrait" target="_blank">sexismandthecity</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h2 style="margin: 10px; text-align: left;">Frida Kahlo<br/>Tree of Hope</h2> <p>This self-portrait includes two images of the artist. The first lies with her back toward us on a hospital gurney, her head to the left, apparently anesthetized. She is wrapped in a white sheet except for her lower back, which is exposed to show two large surgical cuts dripping blood. The second figure sits facing us in a chair in front of the right side of the gurney.</p> <p>The sitting figure is essentially the familiar Frida Kahlo of many self-portraits—erect, beautifully dressed in colorful Mexican style, and her face composed in spite of the tear on her right cheek. The difference here is the presence of medical paraphernalia. The upright Kahlo holds in her lap a large back brace, and she seems to be simultaneously wearing the same device under her dress. In her right hand she holds a small flag with a Spanish inscription that could be translated: “Tree of hope, stay firm.”</p> <p>The two figures float in space just above a lifeless and deeply eroded desert landscape. In front of them, at the very bottom of the painting, is the suggestion of an abyss. The painting is divided laterally, the left side ruled over by a sun and the darker right side (the figure’s left) ruled by the moon.</p> <p>At the age of eighteen Kahlo was in a near-fatal bus accident that left her with injuries to her pelvis, spine, and uterus. The life she survived to live was full of physical suffering and medical procedures—and, of course, emotional distress. Many of her paintings address these things. “Tree of Hope” dramatically juxtaposes the severity and painfulness of Kahlo’s condition against her stoic determination to make the best of her life, even live it in style. (Kahlo’s friends often used the term alegria, or joy, to describe her spirit.)</p> <p>The painting’s themes are complex. In a dark irony typical of her, Kahlo gives the flag with its hopeful words little red tassels that resemble the drops of blood oozing from the prostrate figure’s surgical wounds. Further complicating things, according to Hayden Herrera, is that (pre-Mexican) Aztecs’ view of blood was redemptive, and they would prick themselves with needles to stimulate healing—and of course Christianity has its own connection between blood and salvation.</p> <p>Looking to other lives, “Tree of Hope” might ask, what is the relation between suffering and the will to go on in the face of one’s agonies? What is the connection between moon, night, and spirituality or selfhood? If the figure on the right could speak, what would she say?</p> <p><a href="http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new" title="Litmed.med.nyu.edu" target="_blank">Source</a></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>This is the first Frida painting that really caught my eye, in that way that I couldn’t look away. There’s so much in here to explore. The moon shines over her wearing her bright and spiritful dress, grasping the back brace, the tree of hope, what gives her hope at a life lived in that dress. But the sun shines on her pain-ridden naked body, dripping in blood. The light is on the physical brokenness, the dark on the uprightness. But even under that moon, she wears that brace. Appearing in health, she is still using a device to help her. And maybe that is why the sun shines over her broken body. Most people would reverse the light and dark sides, here, indicating darkness in brokenness and light in health. But she defies this, perhaps telling us that she finds her alegria in brokenness, that her determined attempts to live her life with joy could not be separated from her pain and physical realities. That it <i>is</i> the medical device which gives her the ability to experience that joy. She dreams under the moon of wearing her colorful flowing robes, complete with brace. Perhaps the darkness is not bad. Perhaps her broken body is what brings her light.</p> <p>It is a picture of pain and disfigurement and disability that many people cannot wrap their minds around, one that is accepting, at peace, perhaps tenuously. Always the knowledge of fragility, the plea that the tree of hope stay firm. But accepting the tree, embracing the hope, accepting one’s wholeness while broken.</p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/174355377http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/174355377Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:14:06 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp3yo5I3Rv1qztkl8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://sexismandthecity.tumblr.com/post/174223090/the-self-portrait-thinking-of-death-1943-deals" target="_blank">sexismandthecity</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The self-portrait <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/kahlo/thinkingofdeath.shtm" target="_blank"><i>Thinking of Death</i></a>, 1943, deals explicitly with Kahlo’s preoccupation with mortality and the fragility of her body - the legacy of polio in childhood and a near-fatal bus accident. She drew on many different types of funerary imagery in her paintings, including Aztec art and Mexican folk traditions. Later, she extended her range of sources to include Eastern religions. In this work, the third eye chakra in the centre of the forehead, which denotes wisdom or spiritual truth according to Indian Yogic beliefs, has been supplanted with a death’s head.</p> <p><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/kahlo/roomguide.shtm" title="Tate.org.uk" target="_blank">Full article</a></p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/174223266http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/174223266Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:34:04 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp3y4m7P7x1qztkl8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>yes, i am aware i have blogged this painting before but am reblogging it for all the text that is added here bcuz some folks may find it interesting. :)</p> <p><a href="http://sexismandthecity.tumblr.com/post/174216040/frida-kahlo-tree-of-hope-this-self-portrait" target="_blank">sexismandthecity</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h2 style="margin: 10px; text-align: left;">Frida Kahlo<br/>Tree of Hope</h2> <p>This self-portrait includes two images of the artist. The first lies with her back toward us on a hospital gurney, her head to the left, apparently anesthetized. She is wrapped in a white sheet except for her lower back, which is exposed to show two large surgical cuts dripping blood. The second figure sits facing us in a chair in front of the right side of the gurney.</p> <p>The sitting figure is essentially the familiar Frida Kahlo of many self-portraits—erect, beautifully dressed in colorful Mexican style, and her face composed in spite of the tear on her right cheek. The difference here is the presence of medical paraphernalia. The upright Kahlo holds in her lap a large back brace, and she seems to be simultaneously wearing the same device under her dress. In her right hand she holds a small flag with a Spanish inscription that could be translated: “Tree of hope, stay firm.”</p> <p>The two figures float in space just above a lifeless and deeply eroded desert landscape. In front of them, at the very bottom of the painting, is the suggestion of an abyss. The painting is divided laterally, the left side ruled over by a sun and the darker right side (the figure’s left) ruled by the moon.</p> <p>At the age of eighteen Kahlo was in a near-fatal bus accident that left her with injuries to her pelvis, spine, and uterus. The life she survived to live was full of physical suffering and medical procedures—and, of course, emotional distress. Many of her paintings address these things. “Tree of Hope” dramatically juxtaposes the severity and painfulness of Kahlo’s condition against her stoic determination to make the best of her life, even live it in style. (Kahlo’s friends often used the term alegria, or joy, to describe her spirit.)</p> <p>The painting’s themes are complex. In a dark irony typical of her, Kahlo gives the flag with its hopeful words little red tassels that resemble the drops of blood oozing from the prostrate figure’s surgical wounds. Further complicating things, according to Hayden Herrera, is that (pre-Mexican) Aztecs’ view of blood was redemptive, and they would prick themselves with needles to stimulate healing—and of course Christianity has its own connection between blood and salvation.</p> <p>Looking to other lives, “Tree of Hope” might ask, what is the relation between suffering and the will to go on in the face of one’s agonies? What is the connection between moon, night, and spirituality or selfhood? If the figure on the right could speak, what would she say?</p> <p><a href="http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new" title="Litmed.med.nyu.edu" target="_blank">Source</a></p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/174219122http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/174219122Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:27:01 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kohtjgzGJY1qznvs2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lalilster.tumblr.com/post/164444092/an-upcycled-leather-handbag-designed-with-my-own" target="_blank">lalilster</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“an upcycled leather handbag designed with my own artwork and hand painted with acrylic decorative accents”</p> <p>Frida purse - Un cigarillo, flores y Frida (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/estudiomartita" target="_blank">estudiomartita</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164454815http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164454815Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:56:26 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kohtk6dRAh1qznvs2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lalilster.tumblr.com/post/164444303/frida-purse-un-cigarillo-flores-y-frida-via" target="_blank">lalilster</a>:</p> <blockquote>Frida purse - Un cigarillo, flores y Frida (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/estudiomartita" target="_blank">estudiomartita</a>)</blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164454542http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164454542Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:55:53 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kohtmfvEM01qznvs2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lalilster.tumblr.com/post/164445102/wood-letter-holder-bought-at-junque-store-in" target="_blank">lalilster</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“wood letter holder bought at ‘junque’ store in New Orleans; painted with layers of colors then sanded to reveal a texture like surface; painted with floral images than surround the imagery of Frida Kahlo”</p> <p>Frida letter box (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/estudiomartita" target="_blank">estudiomartita</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p> this is so awesome</p>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164454411http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164454411Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:55:37 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kohtp8K4Ed1qznvs2o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lalilster.tumblr.com/post/164445996/mural-on-the-side-of-a-laundromat-on-24th-st-in" target="_blank">lalilster</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“mural on the side of a laundromat on 24th St. in The Mission, San Francisco CA”</p> <p><br/>giant washers mural: The Mission, S.F. (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/estudiomartita" target="_blank">estudiomartita</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164454034http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164454034Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:54:56 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kog2wmcIdq1qzbzopo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://peacenikseekspeacenik.tumblr.com/post/164127861/queering-lencowgill-self-portrait-frida-kahlo" target="_blank">peacenikseekspeacenik</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://queering.tumblr.com/post/164113521/lencowgill-self-portrait-frida-kahlo" target="_blank">queering</a>:</p> <blockquote><a href="http://lencowgill.tumblr.com/post/163826725/self-portrait-frida-kahlo" target="_blank">lencowgill</a>:Self-Portrait  <i>Frida Kahlo</i></blockquote> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164175980http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/164175980Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:35:44 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/aHyNHMV3lprvsz8gQQpBrfMco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://curate.tumblr.com/post/163820334/imogen-cunningham" target="_blank">curate</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Imogen Cunningham, 1931 <a href="http://thedirtythirties.tumblr.com/post/140275067/billyjane-frida-kahlo-no-stranger-to-passion" target="_blank">thedirtythirties</a>:<a href="http://billyjane.tumblr.com/post/140274304/frida-kahlo-no-stranger-to-passion-and-suicide" target="_blank">billyjane</a>: via:<a href="http://i12bent.tumblr.com/post/139619768/frida-kahlo-no-stranger-to-passion-and-suicide" target="_blank">i12bent</a></p> </blockquote>http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/163835529http://fridakahlorocks.tumblr.com/post/163835529Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:20:07 -0400