{"id":10335,"date":"2013-09-29T02:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T00:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=10335"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:26:11","slug":"copenhagen-frida-kahlo-a-live-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/copenhagen-frida-kahlo-a-live-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen: Frida Kahlo – A Live In Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPortrait of Lady in White by Frida Kahlo, 1929. Identified as Adela Formoso de Obreg\u00f3n Santacilia. Photo by Birthe Havmoeller.
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If you like photos of Frida Kahlo, go see the exhibtion Frida Kahlo – A Live In Art<\/em> at Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. There are more photos of Frida than paintings by her at this exhibition.<\/p>\n

The Arken’s press release read: ‘Strong and independent, she (Frida Kahlo) is an inspirational role model. The exhibition offers a look at Kahlo\u2019s oeuvre through a number of her most iconic self-portraits, drawings, pages from her diary as well as jewelry and dresses from her time. The works reflect her tragic life, embracing a horrible traffic accident and countless surgeries, tormented love for the artist Diego Rivera, affairs with both men and women, miscarriages and childlessness, as well as political activism’.<\/p>\n

I was hoping that Arken would tell a somewhat queer \/ feminist story about bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), but unfornately they told the old story: Frida loves Diego and Diego is a jerk, because he has affairs with other women… and Frida is unhappy (had affairs with both men and women throughout her turbulent marriage to Diego).<\/p>\n

However, I was happy to see Frida’s Portrait of Lady in White, a<\/em> painting of feminist activist Adela Formoso de Obreg\u00f3n Santacilia (see above), who fought for the womens rights and was a highly respected woman in Mexico around 1930.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, which runs through January 12, 2014, also presentes some of Frida’s colorfull Mexican dresses (see photo below), some of her works on paper, and works by Diego Rivera<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Frida Kahlo – A Live In Art at Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark. Exhibition view. Photo by Birthe Havmoeller.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feminine Moments went to see ‘Frida Kahlo – A Live In Art’ at Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. The exhibition claimed the bisexual artist as a heterosexual painter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704,19],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-10335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20-century-artists","category-painting","tag-frida-kahlo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t