This papier mache 'Frida Kahlo' is full of the things the great Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, loved in her lifetime. She is life-sized and placed on a base painted in the colors she used in her painting "Love Embrace of the Universe..." Additionally, she is wearing a replica of a pre-columbian necklace that is visible in many of her paintings, and in photographs of the artist. She is decorated in the Dia de Los Muertos style, since this was a holiday Frida enjoyed. The heart in her ribcage has a picture of Diego Rivera; her husband, and from that heart flow veins and arteries that turn into vines and leaves...Frida believed that we nourish the earth, and it nourishes us.
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March 11, 2011 at 5:28PM
Hi Joni! This looks like such a cool sculpture. I wish the photo was better so I could see all the things you mentioned in your comments.
I am an artist in Wisconsin. I have been doing jewelry and other types of paper art for the past 30+ years. I have just started doing paper mache and am VERY excited and renewed as an artist about this NEW medium for me. I LOVE Frida Kahlo as an artist and think that your sculpture is a wonderful tribute to herart and her life.
Thank you for sharing.
Regards,
Leslie Ann Farrar