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Life as Art/Art as Life: Dramatizing the Life and Work of Frida Kahlo

2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 35; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3200/jpft.35.2.68-77

1930-6458

Tina Olsin Lent,

Artistic and Creative Research

Working from the conventions of the artist biopic in which intense personal suffering is the outward manifestation of a (male) artist's innate creative forces, Julie Taymor's film Frida (2002) heightens the emotional nature of the female artist even more. Taymor conjoins Kahlo's physical suffering with other forms of emotional excess, most notably an intense love of, and engagement with, life to establish an intensity of feeling that drove her art.