Posted on 01/07/2024 2:07:32 PM PST by DallasBiff
Recently, Kahlo has become a polarizing figure in the conversation about cultural appropriation. While some express profound admiration and reverence for the artist, others passionately argue that Kahlo profited off an exoticized, calculated self-image at the expense of Indigenous people. To some, this accusation may seem like a wrongful application of the concept of cultural appropriation. After all, Kahlo was a citizen of the country from which her clothes originated, and she was immersed in Indigenous culture. Therefore, some claim that she was justified in wanting to embrace her Indigenous roots as a form of self-expression.
Both supporters and critics of Kahlo engage in the wider debate on who can reclaim parts of their heritage and identity — a complex, evolving concept. To better comprehend the grievances of Indigenous Mexican communities, one must examine Kahlo’s genealogy and the way she chose to portray her identity.
Kahlo was the daughter of a German man and a mestiza woman; the term mestiza refers to a person of mixed Spanish and Indigenous descent. Kahlo’s mother held tenuous ties to the Indigenous people of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a region in the state of Oaxaca.
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There are more important things to worry about, you woke z'ers.
She’s a Marxist icon so it’s good news if she’s being devoured by the left. The snake is eating its own tail.
She’s only got one eyebrow, a unibrow.
Yes, she was.
Wasn’t she German?
Leftist mental masturbation. Either you like her art or you don’t. Personally, IMHO, if she were not a Latina bisexual communist I don’t think we would have ever heard of her save for being married to Diego Rivera.
Did she and her husband help kill Trotsky?
The original Frau Unibrow. She never heard of a dipilatory?!
Mental grave digging masturb*tion.
On a shallow note: I love those earrings!
Mexican artist of the first half of the 20th century…. Salma Hayek played her in a biopic … which has some great nude scenes if nothing else. Like many other ‘intellectuals’ of the period she was a commie, even spent time with Trotsky when he was in Mexico and before he was assassinated.
How dare you paint a portrait of another person, or a dog, or a bowl of fruit, or a landscape! That's not you, you appropriator!
“[T]his is what is important to Harvard students now?”
Yes, this this and only this. Not a discussion of Kahlo as an artist even but an interrogation of “her genealogy” and how she “chose to portray” her own existence.
And if she’s insufficiently colored, she’ll be found wanting.
Pretty sure she was married to famed muralist Diego Rivera (if it’s Jeopardy and it’s murals, it’s him!). Pretty sure he’ll be judged too darn white, although I know nothing about his “genealogy”.
They were both big commies, but even that is not enough anymore, as you see. One must be a commie of color! And they don’t even mean Red anymore, or even Pinko!
I feel bad for any young person who wants to actually study ANYTHING. Good luck!
The proverbial knitted brow....
Kind of ignored that movie because I really dislike Frieda and figured the movie had no redeeming qualities.
Now you tell me it has Salma Hayek nude scenes?
That changes things.
May have grit my teeth and see if I can get through till the end.
And there is always the mute and fast forward buttons
75% of her paintings are self portraits.
This is a good lesson in how committed lefties can expect to be treated in the new regime. They’ll still find an excuse to hate them!
Kahlo had a terrible life medically. At an early age, she contracted polio which crippled one leg. At 18, a handrail impaled her pelvis during a bus accident. Later on in life her crippled leg had to be amputated.
She was interested in anarchism, Communism and having affairs, including with Leon Trotsky. I suspect that her marriage to artist Diego Rivera was part of her fame.
She’s part mestizo and was born in Mexico. Why that doesn’t qualify her to paint with Mexican imagery, I don’t understand. Being half-German makes her all white and privileged? If so, then Obama isn’t our first black president. These people are illogical.
It’s always something.
not to mention the Snake is eating its own tale.
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