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Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo , 1907-54, Mexican painter, b. Coyoacán. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five... Read more |
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Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera , 1886-1957, Mexican mural painter, studied as a youth with Posada and other Mexican painters; husband of Frida Kahlo . The native sculpture of Mexico deeply impressed him. In Europe (1907-9, 1912-21) he worked in several countries and was influenced by the paintings of El Greco and... Read more |
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Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull Singer, songwriter Long before Madonna made reinvention her artistic byword, Marianne Faithfull had resurrected herself many times over. Yet the British singer-songwriter's endeavors have consistently been upstaged by personal scandal and vice. Her early years as a Euro-waif pop... Read more |
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Francesco Cossa
Francesco Cossa or Francesco del Cossa , c.1435-1477?, Italian painter. He was a leading representative of the Ferrarese school and was regarded, with Ercole de'Roberti, as the founder of the Bolognese school. His principal works include The Glorification of March, April, and May, frescoes in... Read more |
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Duccio di Buoninsegna
Duccio di Buoninsegna , fl. 1278-1319, early Italian artist, first great painter of Siena. Infusing new life into the stylized Byzantine tradition, he initiated a style intrinsic to the development of the Sienese school—the expressive use of outline. The use of line varied from a vigorous... Read more |
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Saint Ives School
St Ives School. A loosely structured group of artists, flourishing particularly from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, who concentrated their activities in the Cornish fishing port of St Ives. Like Newlyn, St Ives had been popular with artists long before this: in the winter of 1883–4... Read more |
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attribution
attribution. A term in art history and criticism for the assignment to an artist of a work of uncertain authorship. Attributions are sometimes made on the evidence of documents. A painting of unknown authorship may, for example, be found to accord with a description in an inventory where the artist... Read more |
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pop art
pop art a movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism . British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express formal abstract relationships.... Read more |
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Film: The Latina queens take it down Mexico way First Salma Hayek wanted to...
...suffering Mexican artist. The pain and...portrait of Kahlo will emerge...power struggle. Frida Kahlo, as depicted...the cinematic Frida will have to...interest in Kahlo, Madonna - who prizes...feels that her ... |
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Life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo reaches screen; Temperamental: She was a...
...s love, the artist Diego Rivera...often rocky relationship with Rivera...City in 1907, Kahlo was in a near...a glimpse of Kahlo's life when...cornflower blue Museo Frida Kahlo has been kept...the pop star ... |
 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Discovering Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
...of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was not here in...beginning to rediscover Kahlo. Here, her image...size painted Frida cutouts adorn stores...Mexico." Even Madonna and Jennifer Lopez...complicating their ... |
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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CULTURE: Frida stays in the frame; Once a marginal figure, the Mexican...
...sister Gwen, Kahlo now threatens...interest in the relationship between the...contemporary artists, are central to that of Kahlo. Her preoccupation...her an ideal artist for our post...bestowed on Kahlo two years ... |
 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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The pain in the paint; Salma Hayek's performance as artist Frida Kahlo puts...
...as the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is one of the very...Pain was what Frida suffered all her...successfully beat Madonna out of the race...It's Frida Kahlo's art that...room buzzing. Her ... |
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Frida Kahlo show at London's Tate Modern explores artist's multiple identities
...She was an artist, a disable...comprehensive look at Kahlo's life and...paintings lent by Madonna and 68 that...Kingdom.Kahlo's current...fascination.When Kahlo was 18, a...life.The relationship consumed her...the loved ... |
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Salma Hayek thanks competitor Madonna for helping `Frida'.(Zap2it)
...Salma Hayek thanks Madonna for setting up...life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. "It if weren...produces the movie "Frida," which has critics...artist and her relationship with mural ... |
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Salma Hayek thanks competitor Madonna for helping `Frida'.
...Salma Hayek thanks Madonna for setting up...life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. "It if weren...produces the movie "Frida," which has critics...artist and her relationship with mural ... |
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Strength of Frida Kahlo inspires.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
...the work of Frida Kahlo. Her room...portraits. The artist was her own...and again. Kahlo depicted her...tormented relationship with her husband...continue. Kahlo was brutally...musical. Madonna was the ... |
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Standing in Line for Frida Kahlo: An Outsider's Booming...
...Mario Naves Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera...establishing a relationship with an artist would be to commission...ways different artists saw Natasha...like effigy. Frida Kahlo portrays her...in the works. ... |
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