Your art history post for today, a work in the collection of the Henry Ransom Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus: by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Untitled [Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird], 1940, oil on canvas mounted to board, © 2020 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. #ArtHistory #mexicoart #womanartist #womenartists #painting #oilpainting #mexicanart #mexicanartist

From Phyllis Tuchman, Smithsonian Magazine, November 2002: ‘Biographies of the artist, which have been translated into many languages, read like the fantastical novels of Gabriel García Márquez as they trace the story of two painters who could not live with or without each other. (Taymor says she views her film version of Kahlo’s life as a “great, great love story.”) Married twice, divorced once and separated countless times, Kahlo and Rivera had numerous affairs, hobnobbed with Communists, capitalists and literati and managed to create some of the most compelling visual images of the 20th century. Filled with such luminaries as writer André Breton, sculptor Isamu Noguchi, playwright Clare Boothe Luce and exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Kahlo’s life played out on a phantasmagorical canvas.’

For more from the article, see: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frida-kahlo-70745811/

Chavis Mármol Dropped a Nine-Ton Olmec Head on a Tesla—Here’s Why

🚗💥🗿 A Tesla Model 3 crushed by a nine-ton Olmec head! Mexican sculptor Chavis Mármol says the piece symbolizes resistance against tech billionaires, calling it a strike against “a sinister figure like Elon Mollusk.”

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/03/16/chavis-marmol-dropped-a-nine-ton-olmec-head-on-a-teslaheres-why/

Self Portraits by Mexican Artist Jose Parra

1) La Noche del Juicio (The Night of the Judgement)

2) Autorrerato Cosiendo Sombrero de Arleguin (Self Portrait Sewing Harlequin Hat)

#joseparra #art #artist #selfportrait #selfportraits #autorretrato #mexicanartist #huile #oleo #oilpainting #autorretratos #autoretrato #artworld #juicio #mexicanart

Fanny Rabel (1922-2008) born Fanny Rabinovich in Poland to Jewish parents, she is a Mexican artist, one of the youngest associated with early Mexican muralism. Arriving in Mexico in 1938 she met and befriended Frida Kahlo becaming the only female member of “Los Fridos” the group of students under Kahlo’s tutelage. She also worked as an assistant and apprentice to Diego Rivera.

#fannyrabel #fannyrabinovich #losfridos #mexicanartist #art #arte #artworld #fridakahlo #diegorivera #pinturamexicana #pintura #mexicanart #artemexicano #kunst #künstler #peintre

Arturo Estrada (born 1925) a Mexican painter, one of a group of four along with Arturo García Bustos, Guillermo Monroy and Fanny Rabel, that studied under Frida Kahlo. They were known as “Los Fridos.”

#arturoestrada #mexicanpainter #art #artist #artworld #painter #painting #peintre #losfridos #peinture #arte #mexicanart #mexicanartist #pintor #pintormexicano #artistamexicano #arturoestradahernandez

Bark bark bark, dogs!!!

Admiring contemporary #mexicanartist Rodolfo Morale’s Mujer mística (1990) at the National Museum of Mexican Arts with @ccshan

#travel #museum #HumanDog #HumanPup #GayPup #GayPuppy #PupLife #PupPlay #PuppyPlay #PetPlay
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In 1973 Agustín Hernández Navarro completed the house for her sister Amalia Hernández who was a dancer, choreographer and the founder of the Ballet Folklórico de México. The architect demonstrates a stark playfulness of form in the project, where a rigid geometry collides with a more organic, curvilinear shape.

https://archeyes.com/amalia-hernandez-house-agustin-hernandez-navarro/

#Architecture #agustínhernándeznavarro #organicarchitecture #mexicanartist #mexicanarchitecture #modernhouse #clay #1973 #1970saesthetic #1970s

Song of the Day April 19 2023

In honor of the birth of Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Miguel

Luis Miguel - "La Fiesta Del Mariachi"

https://youtu.be/12_eYjSP5G8

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #April19 #LuisMiguel #LaFiestaDelMariachi #Music #Musica #Mexico #MexicanArtist #Spanish #MusicVideo #2010s