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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
Amazing, so intimate, and fascinating. I was mesmerized reading Frida's private thoughts of pain, passion, art and love for Diego, and loved seeing her journal sketches, paintings and doodles.
There are no words to describe how important this book is to me. I regularly visit the pages of Frida Kahlo's diary for inspiration and deeper insight into my own life and perspective of the world. Some pages are heartbreaking and some are joyous, but it is all TRUE and that's the biggest teaching, here. I also learned to embrace the bleeding through of pages, when working in journals. "Messy" is inspiring and beautiful!
Lendo este diário pude entender porque alguns são relutantes em aceitar Kahlo como ícone feminista, o caso é que a relação dela com Diego Rivera beirava à patologia, quer dizer, o tipo de paixão que ela sentia e demonstrava por Diego são comuns em garotas de 20 anos e aqui ela estava por volta dos 40 e soa como uma dependência emocional particularmente doentia partindo de uma mulher adulta.
Por outro lado, tirando essa questão desconcertante, ela ainda é um ícone feminista por sua resiliência perante tantas intempéries da ordem física e emocional, e a partir de todo esse sofrimento ela soube transformá-lo em arte, esta imensamente bem representada neste diário que teve toda sua magnitude editorial preservada nessa linda edição brasileira.
Por outro lado, tirando essa questão desconcertante, ela ainda é um ícone feminista por sua resiliência perante tantas intempéries da ordem física e emocional, e a partir de todo esse sofrimento ela soube transformá-lo em arte, esta imensamente bem representada neste diário que teve toda sua magnitude editorial preservada nessa linda edição brasileira.
The first half of this book were Kahlo's entries in Spanish along with her paintings and drawings. The second half of the book were the translations and interpretations on these writings and drawings. Powerful and painful and deeply tragic.
This collection of Frida’s personal writings and paintings combines well with the introduction, final comments, and translations to give readers a more intimate insight into this remarkable artist’s life.
I took a very long time reading this, not only is it a hefty book it's also so deeply personal to Kahlo it almost feels like an invasion of privacy in places. The pages in the first section of the book are so vivid, colourful and personal it can really take your breath away, and the back translations are worthy of reading over and over again. I've always enjoyed her works and admired her as an activist, queer icon & as an artist and this has just amplified these feelings.
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
A visual treat, but the experience would undoubtedly be better if I understand the language
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
slow-paced