WINGS TO FLY - KAHLO, FRIDA

Autor: KAHLO, FRIDA

Editorial: SEPTEMBER PUBLISHING

EAN: 9780715657058

An inspirational collection of quotes and images from Kahlo’s diaries, letters and interviews.\n‘I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.’\n\nFor many she represents triumph over suffering, but to Frida Kahlo, life, body and art were entirely intertwined.\n\nKahlo – friend, lover, teacher, patient, survivor, revolutionary – endured polio and scoliosis as a child, and then, at the age of 18, survived a catastrophic bus accident. Over the next 19 years she was to undergo over thirty surgeries. Yet her work, her magical, jewel-coloured paintings, her heartfelt, visceral art, continued to flow.\n\nUsing new translations from her diary, letters and interviews, Wings to Fly juxtaposes Kahlo’s paintings with her writings, and illuminates links between the personal and universal, the physical and imaginative, the pain and resolve – to truly inspire.\n\n‘Feet what do I need them for, if I have wings to fly?’\n\n'Everything can have beauty, even the worst horror.'\nFrida Kahlo’s fierce dedication to her art left a legacy of paintings and writings that reveal both her creative brilliance and her remarkable endurance. Her diaries, letters and reflections show a woman who - despite profound physical pain - sought meaning through colour, symbolism and uncompromising self-expression.\n\nThe inspiring quotes and images by Kahlo collected in Wings to Fly illuminate her artistic evolution and her lifelong struggle to transform suffering into beauty, connection and a deeper sense of personal empowerment.\n\nEdited and compiled by Louise Coigley.