Frida Kahlo

On the centenary of Frida Kahlo’s birth, a comprehensiveretrospective can go a long way to rescue this tough, rich artist from her ArtHeroine Poster Grrrl status. She deserves more. Kahlo was full ofcontradictions and had moments of heroism and weakness; she had blindness,insight, and a gift for telling a story with pictures. She also hadtalent-maybe not quite enough for her desire, but that’s true of manydeservedly beloved artists: Edward Hopper and Paul Cézanne, for instance, weregiven deeper insight into the nature of the world by their own clumsiness atlevering it into paint. Kahlo shares this divine thumbiness; it helps hercreate the new and make it accessible to her fellow mortals.

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