You see something absurd. You hear something absurd. You read something absurd = Yeah,TNTG. Posts tagged frida kahlo.
can you image how awesome it must have been to be Josephine Baker. She got to dance around topless in a banana skirt in Paris all day. That’s the life.
she had struggles too, which makes her even more amazing. like, at a time when racism and sexism was oppressive,
she was like fuck it
imma shake these tittays and dip outta of the US
cuz they can’t handle my fly
Homegirl was LEGENDARY. Didn’t want to fuck with the racism/sexism in the U.S., noticed the French was all on her tits so she was like PEACE OUT BITCHES I’M BOUT TO MAKE THIS FRENCH MONEY
She was even a spy for the French and helped the French resistance during World War II. Back in the US she was down with Civil Rights and was so close to MLK and the movement that when he was murdered, Coretta Scott King offered her leaderdship, but she turned it down because she felt that her children needed her.
GOT IT IN WITH FRIDA KAHLO.
Started dancing hella young on the streets and was picked up for vaudeville dancing. Got so big that she was able to afford a pet cheetah, which she adorned with a diamond collar, and used it in her shows. (The cheetah would sometimes jump in the pit during her shows, which freaked out musicians.)
White men authors of the time wrote fucking odes to her (Hemingway had the biggest hard on for her) and she became everyone’s muse (Dior, Langston Hughes, Picasso, etc)
She ended up marrying a Frenchman and when she got married in France, she was asked to renounce her American citizenship. She was like “lolz cool” and did that shit with the quickness.
BASICALLY THE BADDEST, Y’ALL.
GOT IT IN WITH FRIDA KAHLO.
GOT IT IN WITH FRIDA KAHLO.
GOT IT IN WITH FRIDA KAHLO.
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GOT IT IN WITH FRIDA KAHLO.
AND ALL THE OTHER STUFF TOO.
“ What is interesting, is that the Frida Kahlo venerated by American feminists is a very different Frida Kahlo to the one people learn about in Mexico, in the Chicano community. In her country, she is recognized as an important artist and a key figure in revolutionary politics of early 20th century Mexico. Her communist affiliations are made very clear. Her relationship with Trotsky is underscored. All her political activities with Diego Rivera are constantly emphasized. The connection between her art and her politics is always made. When Chicana artists became interested in Frida Kahlo in the ‘70s and started organizing homages, they made the connection between her artistic project and theirs because they too were searching for an aesthetic compliment to a political view that was radical and emancipatory. But when the Euro-American feminists latch onto Frida Kahlo in the early ‘80s and when the American mainstream caught on to her, she was transformed into a figure of suffering. I am very critical of that form of appropriation.
Frida Kahlo
-Wearing purples - Wlsk
viva la frida
- frida’s beating (a) heart
- beat, change
- and her heart grew too many sizes that day, so she needed to take it down a peg
“[I am] a woman who knows what sex is in all of its forms. I slept with whomever I liked. I didn’t feel. I enjoyed the phallus in all its magnitude, and the vagina in all its delights. I have no regrets. This is how I am.”
~Frida Kahlo
theeducatedfieldnegro: Frida, Diego, Trotsky..
“ I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
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Frida Kahlo - upon her first trip outside of Mexico, to San Francisco, Ca. (via talcottbroadhead)
I’ve been saying this! They look undercooked! Lol
(via love-eshe)
“ They sit for hours on the ‘cafés’ warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about ‘culture’ ‘art’ ‘revolution’ and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses, and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.
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Frida Kahlo, in a letter to her lover, the photographer Nickolas Muray, expressing her disdain for the members of the art scene in Paris. Much of the letter is too salty to reproduce on a family blog such as this one; in other words, a good read!
Frida Kahlo, Paris, France letter to Nickolas Muray, New York, N.Y., 1939 Feb. 16. Nickolas Muray papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
(via archivesofamericanart)
This blog has never purported to be family-friendly in the least, so I have transcribed more of the letter:
“They have nothing to eat in their houses because none of them work and they live as parasites of the bunch of rich bitches who admire their ‘genius’ of ‘artists’. Shit and shit is what they are. I never seen Diego or you wasting time on stupid gossip and ‘intellectual’ discussions. That’s why you are real men and not lousy ‘artists’…all these people—good for nothing—are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.”
“I rather sit in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with these ‘artistic’ bitches of Paris.”
“I met Marchel Duchamp (a marvelous painter) who is the only one who has his feet on the earth, among all this bunch of coocoo lunatic sons of bitches of the surrealists.”
(via fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory)
YAAS HON-TEA!! MISS FRIEDA!!
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Frida me reina hates people as much as I do!
(via quelola)
