#naive art

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón

6 July 1907-13 July 1954 (aged 47)

Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico

Periods: Naive art, Modern art, Surrealism, Magical realism, Symbolism, Primitivism, Naturalism, Social realism, Cubism

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portrait and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country popular culture, she employed a naive folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.

Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience chronic pain.

Meio ambiente, Candido Portinari, 1934.

“wahine”,  2010 by Norman Engel

“tiki blue eyes”,  2008 by Norman Engel

“standing by the mirror”,  2004 by Norman Engel

“embroidered roses”,2020 by Norman Engel

“modern venus”,  2014 by Norman Engel

“Woman from El Paso”, 2017 by Norman Engel

“Houseplant”, 2001 by Norman Engel

“ponytail”, 2004 by Norman Engel

“seated woman”, ,2016 by Norman Engel

“Feisty”, 2005 by Norman Engel

“long blonde braids”  2008 by Norman Engel

“December 2006″, 2006 by Norman Engel

“thinking of you”, 2003 by Norman Engel

“Eve”,  2002 by Norman Engel