The Little Dear, 1946. Frida Kahlo
When Breton saw Frida's work, he declared her a surrealist.
Frida said, "I paint my own reality."
She is also rumored to have said, "They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris."
Frida was en ethnographer in her own right, I think. She invested herself deeply in the folkloric of Mexico, and who else better to learn about embodied knowledge, than from someone whose body was mutilated and constantly reproduced through the image?
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