collettivo culturale tuttomondo Frida Kahlo (México)
Sono nata con una rivoluzione.
Diciamolo. È in quel fuoco che sono nata, pronta all’impeto della rivolta fino al momento di vedere il giorno. Il giorno era cocente. Mi ha infiammato per il resto della mia vita. Da bambina, crepitavo. Da adulta, fui fiamma pura.
Nací con una revolución.
Que se sepa, con ese fuego nací, llevada por el ímpetu de la revuelta hasta el momento de ver el día. El día era ardiente. Me inflamó para el resto de mi vida. De niña, crepitaba. Adulta, fui pura llama.
Frida Kahlo
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foto: Frida Kahlo by Florence Arquin, 1951 – fair use
Painter, photographer, educator, writer, and critic, Florence Arquin was widely known as an expert in the field of Latin American studies.
She was born in New York City in 1900 to Russian parents who hailed from a long line of physicians and chemists. She initially followed in their footsteps, studying medicine—and in particular the influenza outbreak that followed the war. She was transferred to labs at the University of Chicago and came to the city around 1918. After her brother died of meningitis contracted from a patient, her mother forbade her from working in a hospital. Arquin returned to a prior interest in the arts and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), graduating with a degree in art education in 1933.
In the early 1940s, Arquin traveled to Mexico, pursuing postgraduate studies at the National University of Mexico in Mexico City and developing friendships with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Arquin traveled extensively in South America, the United States, and Europe throughout her life. From 1945 to 1951, she visited Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador as Director of the Kodachrome Slide Project under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of State. She photographed aspects of life and culture and gave lectures at cultural institutions throughout Latin America and in the United States.
Florence Arquin died in 1974.