México Escarlate: modernismo e identidade na obra de Frida Kahlo

Abstract

The effort of this article is to discuss the uniqueness of the art and work of Frida Kahlo, woman and Mexican, in the post-revolutionary context. In order to do so, it is necessary first to put the perspectives and the new dilemmas that open up during the Mexican Revolution as: the need to build a national identity, whose centrality is a people, not that amorphous, but the face with the indigenous and mestizo. In this context, there is the importance of art that, with Mexican Muralism, portrays in public places those subjects who have always been marginal. In this political, cultural and artistic environment that Frida Kahlo is inserted and that, starting from it - imbricated with her intense subjective experiences - an extremely intimate and autobiographical art is born, but, at the same time, with themes and universal potentialities.

Keywords

• identity
• feminism
• mexican revolution
• Frida Kahlo