looks WAY better than the chipped original building. what a good idea. promotes art and culture while making an eyesore become nicer. thanks for
sharing !
Very likely the reference comes from Frida's own self-portrait.
Great work!
New knowledge for me: Historically portraits have shown people with the side of their face showing which corresponds to that part of the brain which
wishes to be accepted, and to be non-threatening. This is the left side of the face. Showing the right side of the face can be a threatening form of
body language. In this case Frida faced right into the mirror. Many self-portraits show the artist's (non-threatening) image right side forward only
because of the mirror. Intriguing! Iflyfish, are you reading this? What do
YOU know?
Thanks Ken.
[Edited on 7-10-2012 by vgabndo]
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Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Originally posted by durrelllrobert
I understand the significence of those eyebrows but why do you suppose he added the monkey with the watermellon?
The enigmatic presence of the monkey heightens the portrait’s uneasiness. Might it be the devil, as purported in Kahlo’s native Mexico? Non-human
primates are frequent human playmates in the arts, the circus, and the streets—always amusing, romantic, and mysterious, and sometimes dark. Might the
monkey on Kahlo’s back be the harbinger of ill health? Like her contemporaries, Kahlo knew little of her close phylogenetic kinship with her pet or
the extreme caution prescribed by this kinship. The threat signaled by the presence of a primate, be it turbulence in Kahlo’s life or herpes B viruses
in ours, remains uncharted. The monkey on our back is to decipher the zoonotic puzzle of infection that perpetuates suffering and limits the immense
capacity of the human spirit.
link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901957/
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