Frida Kahlo entre as flores de Xochiquétzal

Abstract

The author remembers the great interest that Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's (1907-1954) life and work have been generating among academics and artists in the last few years, but the reader of this work may notice that its main objective does not center on the myths that, based on the artist's tragic existence and on the evident dramatic particularities in her work, were created and have had warm reception in the consumption society. Without understating these values, what the author intends, following a poetic perspective, is to evidence aspects of the plastic expressively resulting from the relation of Frida Kahlo's pictorial texts with the Mexican pre-Columbian iconographies.