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Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair

Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair

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Neutral hues, an ill-fitting man's suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo's (1907-54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexican dress and long plaits in Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940).

Nevertheless, the painting remains unmistakably Kahlo's. In the wake of a divorce from artist Diego Rivera, Kahlo turns to her favorite genre, self-portraiture, to express her deepest emotional and psychological urges. Inscribed with the lyrics of a popular song that translate as "Look, if I loved you it was for your hair. Now that you're without it I no longer love you," the work oscillates between evocations of a popular culture shared by many and unflinching forays into the private sphere. Curator Jodi Roberts' essay, too, moves between the public and the private as it situates Kahlo's painting in the context of the Mexican Revolution's legacy, the Surrealist tradition and the artist's own life to explore the ways in which Kahlo constructed and reconstructed her own identity.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Frida Kahlo, Jodi Roberts (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
Published: 07/23/2019
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9781633450752
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 7.20w x 0.30d
8.8 in L x 7.2 in W x 0.3 in D

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  • Neutral hues, an ill-fitting man's suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo's (1907-54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexican dress and long plaits in Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940).

    Nevertheless, the painting remains unmistakably Kahlo's. In the wake of a divorce from artist Diego Rivera, Kahlo turns to her favorite genre, self-portraiture, to express her deepest emotional and psychological urges. Inscribed with the lyrics of a popular song that translate as "Look, if I loved you it was for your hair. Now that you're without it I no longer love you," the work oscillates between evocations of a popular culture shared by many and unflinching forays into the private sphere. Curator Jodi Roberts' essay, too, moves between the public and the private as it situates Kahlo's painting in the context of the Mexican Revolution's legacy, the Surrealist tradition and the artist's own life to explore the ways in which Kahlo constructed and reconstructed her own identity.

    Binding Type: Paperback
    Author: Frida Kahlo, Jodi Roberts (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
    Published: 07/23/2019
    Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
    ISBN: 9781633450752
    Pages: 48
    Weight: 0.45lbs
    Size: 8.80h x 7.20w x 0.30d
  • 8.8 in L x 7.2 in W x 0.3 in D
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