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Her face is also peppered liberally in murals and street art in Los Angeles. It's unusual, because no other artist in Los Angeles seems to be particularly celeb
by ovao 8y ago
Her face is also peppered liberally in murals and street art in Los Angeles. It's unusual, because no other artist in Los Angeles seems to be particularly celebrated in that way — it's Kahlo's image that seems to be important more so than her art.
It would be interesting to chat with the people responsible for those pieces to get a sense of what they knew about Kahlo and what attributes about her they find interesting. I have a similar hunch that many of the people plastering her face around the city probably actually know fairly little about her.
- kjeetgill 8y agoTo be fair her face is also peppered liberally in her own art work. Page through the carousel at the bottom[0], I think I count 2 without her face in it. That said I suspect that, like many artists, she's iconic for being iconic. Her works have made their way into our cultural consciousness even if her ideas or her personal life haven't. I think that's okay. [0]: https://www.fridakahlo.org/the-two-fridas.jsp https://www.fridakahlo.org/the-two-fridas.jsp
- ovao 8y agoThat’s something I hadn’t really considered. The link could very well be that simple.
- Apocryphon 8y agoMaybe they could do the same to Salvador Dali.
- eagletusk 8y agoNext up USA will bandwagon and put Frida on the 500 note like they did in Mexico in 2010.