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Frida Kahlo: Self Portrait with Cropped Hair
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on June 16, 2019 (go to class or lectures)
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ironic, androgynous, power, Madonna, artist, unsettling, black, ribbon, tin, intimate, Cropped, fluid, women, folk, divorce, desires, loved, scissors, femininity, Mitchell, masculine, Diego, unified, desire, saints
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retablo is a form of popular          art in Mexico
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painted in a small format on       
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highly decorative but also strangely                      to the viewer
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they present              commentary on life's contradictions
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PAINTING: Self-Portrait with                Hair 1940
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we see Kahlo dressed in one of           's suits
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she has herself represented in the process of cutting off her hair
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she is paused in the act of hacking off her crowning glory
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admiring herself as if in a mirror,                  still in her hand
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framing the portrait are the words at the top
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"Mira que si te quise, fué por el pelo, ahora que estás pelona, ya no te quiero."
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she has transformed her gendered identity from that of a feminized subject, to a more                    self
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she has taken away the Frida that Diego           , and made herself over into a different and almost unrecognizable Frida
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who now withdraws her charms from her unfaithful husband
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what do pictures want
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art historian WJT                  asks this
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we talk about the            of pictures over us and how they make us feel
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shift the debate from power to             
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along the lines of Freud: What do            want?
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along the lines of Frantz Fanon: What does the            person want?
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Michell wants in a similar way to give agency to the picture
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don't confuse the desire of the picture with the desire of the             
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what pictures want is not the same as the message they communicate
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what pictures want is to be asked what they want
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you no longer impose on the pictures what you know about the artist's intentions
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what do these paintings want
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both
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want to challenge contemporary ideas of                     
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PAINTING: Fulang Chang and I
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Kahlo
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painted along the style of the Renaissance                and Child and so wanted to be quite confrontational
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the picture
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wants to show how Kahlo herself is bound to the monkey
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the monkey is an                  companion
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the connecting             
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communicate calm
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is almost uncanny
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the forest of cacti in the background
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as if woman, animal and nature are all                together
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PAINTING: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair 1940
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what the picture wants
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difficult to interpret the painting without the inscription
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quote from a folk song
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retablo
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often produced on tin
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stories of             
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located behind small altars in small churches
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about dramas relating to the lives of the saints
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here this is about the trials Kahlo has been undergoing in the                from her husband Diego Rivera
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the picture doesn't want the viewer to enter into relationship between Frida and her husband
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her stance is defiant
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she has almost disfigured herself
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now the picture seems to want to encourage us to see it in terms of the gay
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wants to communicate Kahlo as someone who's sexuality is           
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it's making a statement about the fluidity of gender boundaries
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it shows an appeal of an                        looking figure
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we can always return to a picture and ask again, what does the picture want
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it may have different                in different times and circumstances
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the picture may want many things
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