FRIDA KAHLO:
Mexican
painter Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) remains best-known for her
vibrant self-portraits, which comprise 55 of her 143 paintings and combine
elements from traditional Mexican
art with a surrealist aesthetic.
This incredible women
paint her self because often she fell alone and because the subject she know
best.
In this painting, Frida takes an opposite
view to her husband, who was expressing his approval of industrial progress in
a mural in the Rockefeller Center.
After more than three years in America, Frida wanted desperately to
return to her native Mexico. Diego, however, remained fascinated by the country
and his popularity and did not want to leave.
It
may be her way of saying "I may be
in America but only my dress hangs there…my life is in Mexico."
She signed this painting on the back in chalk and added the inscription:
"I painted this in New York when
Diego was painting the mural in Rockefeller Center".

