By Diego Rivera (1886–1957), The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies), 1941, oil on masonite, Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mr. Cary Grant, © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. #arthistory #mexicanart #painting #oilpainting

From the museum: “Rivera was among the leading North American artists of the twentieth century, best remembered for the public murals he painted throughout Mexico and the United States. He arrived at his distinctive brand of stylized naturalism after a decade in Paris (1909–1919), where he had befriended such European artists as Picasso and Duchamp and experimented with various avant-garde approaches. Pre-Columbian art of his native country, however, would present the key source for Rivera’s mature style, characterized by emphatic color, simplified forms, and a dramatic tension between flatness and three-dimensional modeling. The figure of the flower vendor formed a recurring theme in Rivera’s work, appearing both in his murals and in easel paintings like this one. The indigenous girl, kneeling before her pile of calla lilies—a flower associated with funerals and death—constitutes an ode at once to the beauty of Mexico’s native cultures and to the suffering of her native peoples.”

[Expo] Leonora Carrington - Musée du Luxembourg - Paris

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Lock the fuck in it's a Mel post. Or don't that's okay too. EAT FIRST Chinese Restaurant in Avondale, Chitown. Good memories here. Hidden gem as you see hella traffic on Belmont

Get your ass across the street to Joong Boo market as well if you're in the area real ones know

WIP of Ricobene's in South Side Chicago today on Christmas Eve. Best Pizza on da planet. Pull tf up

Two mel posts in a day wow. Here's that little cubicle at the Jefferson Park Blue Line stop i lowkey fucked it up but I'm still awesome. There's a pig in the middle of a bike lane for no damn reason rn blocking the street anyway those black blobs are pigeons

Frida Kahlo's face is everywhere, but her radical truth remains hidden. Beyond the merch: a communist who painted miscarriage, colonial resistance & chronic pain without redemption. Her $54.7M auction record vs. missing Casa Azul works tells everything.
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