Personalidade: Frida Kahlo

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1. O homem que amava os cachorros: Leonardo Padura (grupo);
2. Trótsky, exílio e assassinato de um revolucionário: Bertrand M. Patenaude (subgrupo);

Like many paintings by Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky focuses on a particular event in the artist’s life. It commemorates the brief affair Kahlo had with the exiled Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky shortly after his arrival in Mexico in 1937. In this painting, she presents herself elegantly clothed in a long embroidered skirt, fringed shawl, and delicate gold jewelry.  Flowers and coils of red yarn adorn her hair and adroitly applied makeup highlights her features. Poised and confident in her stage-like setting, Kahlo holds a bouquet of flowers and a letter of dedication to Trotsky that states, “with all my love.” Interestingly, Clare Boothe Luce, the American playwright, socialite, and U.S. Congresswoman, donated Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky to NMWA in 1988. - See more at: http://nmwa.org/works/self-portrait-dedicated-leon-trotsky#sthash.pMAyv2HL.dpuf

Also known as The Flying Bed , this is arguably the most painful self portrait that Frida Kahlo ever painted. Not only had she just suffered her second miscarriage, she was also beginning to realize that she could never carry a pregnancy to term. Additionally, these physical and emotional agonies had to be faced in a foreign city that she detested, and in which she felt completely estranged.

Fulang-Chang e eu

"Fazer amor, tomar um banho, fazer amor de novo" (Frida Kahlo)

Frida y el piochitas