Frida Kahlo - The Master of Self Portraits

Surrealism was a movement in visual art and literature that flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published The Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.” The major Surrealist painters at the time were Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Pierre Roy, Paul Delvaux, and Joan Miró. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-po...View all