FRIDA KAHLO SELF PORTRAIT WITH CROPPED HAIR

In 1940, in the wake of a divorce from her husband, the artist Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo turned to self-portraiture to express her deepest emotional and psychological impulses, and completed a painting inscribed with the lyrics of a popular song: Look, if I loved you it was for your hair. Now that youre without it, I no longer love you. In Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, Kahlos usual lively and saturated palette is supplanted by neutral hues, her Tehuana dress by an ill-fitting mans suit, and her plaited hair by strangely sentient lo...[Leer más]