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Art critic
I showed the cat the Kahlo picture.
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Sharksbaja
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This thread could drive one batty
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
Nomads\' Sunsets
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Don Alley
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The plant looks to me like a variety of wild geranium that grows around here in moist areas (if anyone is still interested). Was it sticky?
And if you wonder how an inquiry about a plant ends up in Frida Kahlo-land, well, welcome to my world.
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Paula
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I like your idea of posting favorite paintings, Iflyfish. But I can't seem to narrow it down. I like her surrealistic work, but I think the
self-portraits are so interesting. I think this one, painted in 1933, is beautiful. She appears softer here, and her bold necklace is very
expressive.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Don Alley
The plant looks to me like a variety of wild geranium that grows around here in moist areas (if anyone is still interested). Was it sticky?
And if you wonder how an inquiry about a plant ends up in Frida Kahlo-land, well, welcome to my world. |
I feel your angst, Don.
Whatever that plant was/is it seems to have affected our poodle...who ate a seed or two...and now bears a striking resemblance to Frida Kahlo...go
figure. 
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Paula
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AHEM...
Here is another of Frida's portraits, this time of a frien's mother, painted in 1944
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Excellent, Paula. There's a piercing, almost falcon-like look to those eyes.
Unfortunately there aren't enough works like this. Which is sad because there is so much ability here.
Regarding her surrealistic work - Dave's cat had it right.
p.s. that for self portrait, 1933.
[Edited on 12-3-2008 by Skipjack Joe]
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Paula
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One more...
Viva la Vida was finished just 8 days before her death. Night sky is encroaching upper left.
And now it's time to cook dinner. Anyone know how to cook a sticky geranium?
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Paula said....."Anyone know how to cook a sticky geranium?"
Paula, I pulled up those dried leaves and stems...and VIOLA...it was this surreal creation. Do I have to cook it or can it be eaten
raw?
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Dave
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Frida, darling, two words...
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Hot wax
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Paula, I just can't stop looking at that first portrait. It's amazing.
There's strength and vulnerability in that face. And it just so latin american. The head tilted slightly back with all the pride and dignity of that
latin soul.
It's as though she's talking to me. Help, I'm freaking out. Gotta get away from those eyes. Poor Diego. She's haunting.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
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I wonder what 2 words Frida might say to you, Dave
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Pompano
Whichever youdo, I'd advise sharing it with a few friends.
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Haunting...and haunted. As if she were to emerge outside her world she would be caught like a deer in the headlights.
"I paint myself because I so often alone and because I am the subject I know best." Frida
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Dave
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Nothing I haven't heard before
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I wonder what 2 words Frida might say to you, Dave
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Repeatedly. 
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Pompano
Whoa! What a tubor! Now that is ART!
That is some geranium amigo.
Iflyfish
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Pompano, you must need to hold lil Cedric over the pot!
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Now a chubacabra has hijacked this post, amazing what free association can do to a guy!
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