Excerpts from a diary Frida Kahlo kept for the last ten years of her life, published 40 years after her death. Frida marked few dates, kept no appointments or notes on personal events. Most of the pages are filled instead with her own internal mythology, an internal theater.
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One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
“My futile idea was that action in comics, as in any art, doesn’t end with one person pounding another person in the jaw. There’s also the action of emotion, psychology, character and idea. I yearned to have stories which dealt with more reality and people’s feelings and thoughts . . . a kind of literary …
Frida Kahlo’s Diary
Excerpts from a diary Frida Kahlo kept for the last ten years of her life, published 40 years after her death. Frida marked few dates, kept no appointments or notes on personal events. Most of the pages are filled instead with her own internal mythology, an internal theater.
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