frida in america the creative awakening of a great artist

In essence, with “Frida in America,” Stahr says she “wanted to be able to tell the story in a way that can have an impact on people, where they can feel, hopefully, that they were on this journey with Frida.” Click the player above to hear CultureShift’s Amanda LeClaire in conversation with Celia Stahr about Frida Kahlo – the art and the artist. “It has this otherworldly look to it,” Stahr says of the drawing. She has red strings attached to various objects, one being her miscarried child. In this painting, Stahr describes that Kahlo is on a hospital bed placed in a desolate landscape with the Ford-River Rouge Factory in the background. “One is the basis for one of her major breakthrough paintings called, ‘Henry Ford Hospital’.” “While she’s in hospital recovering from a miscarriage, she starts to draw and she draws several important images,” says Stahr. A period she references as Kahlo’s battling a bout of “emotional turmoil.” Stahr, a professor at the University of San Francisco, also details Kahlo’s time in Detroit. the creative awakening of a great artist by Celia Stahr RELEASE DATE: MaAn art historian parses the famed artist’s complicated psychological and emotional states while in America as a young wife and emerging artist in the early 1930s. I didn’t think there was that much out there looking at her development and creative process.” “While she’s become this icon now, oftentimes, we don’t talk as much about her artwork. It’s a time where she ultimately makes or breaks into her style, and also the subject matter she focuses on,” Stahr tells CultureShift’s Amanda LeClaire. “I wanted to deal with her paintings in a very substantial way. Stahr’s literary portrait invites readers into deeper understanding of the private desires, dreams and conflicts articulated within her art. Celia Stahr’s “ Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist,” creatively paints Kahlo’s travels in the United States during 1930-1933 – a very uproarious historical period in both the States and in her personal life.

Frida in america the creative awakening of a great artist