On the following page, she lists words that begin with the letter “a. Perhaps the most surrealist aspect of Frida’s diary is her automatic poetry - a practice of writing whatever words come to mind as a way of accessing one’s unconscious. I love this imagery of Frida going through the “o” in the dairy store sign to meet her imaginary friend. Through that “door” I would come out, in my imagination, and hurriedly, with immense happiness, I would cross all the field I could see until I reached a dairy store called PINZÓN….Through the “O” in PINZÓN I entered and descended impetuously to the entrails of the earth, where “my imaginary friend” always waited for me… (plates 82-83) And with my finger I would draw a “door”……. On the window of my old room, facing Allende Street, I used to breathe on one of the top panes. I must have been six years old when I had the intense experience of an imaginary friendship with a little girl…roughly my own age. Often, she accompanies these paintings with poetic descriptions that turn her pain into something transcendent. (plate 142)įrida also records her pain with bursts of red and disfigured portraits of her own body.

In the hope that when I walk again I’ll give what remains of my courage to Diego. It is certain that they are going to amputate my right leg…I’m very, very worried but at the same time I feel it would be a relief. The Diary of Frida Kahlo illustrates the last ten years of the life of the renowned Mexican painter from 1944 to her death in 1954. In 1953, her right leg, taken over with gangrene, had to be amputated just below the knee. Often, she draws images of her body without her right leg. Frida Kahlo The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait Hardcover Augby Carlos Fuentes (Author) 1,558 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 20.99 49 Used from 10.55 24 New from 20.31 3 Collectible from 19.95 Paperback from 80.00 1 Used from 220.99 1 Collectible from 80. Her feet appear throughout the diary, dislocated and red with pain. Notice, also, the skeleton drawings behind the real Frida’s shoulder.įrida’s diary chronicles increasing pain in her right foot and leg. The other depicts the Frida that Diego didn’t love.

Photograph of Frida and “The Two Fridas.” Painted after her divorce, she explained that one figure depicts the Frida that Diego loved.

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