Cultural project 4 (frida kahlo self portrait with monkey)
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2. The location where this painting
was created could not be found.
However, Frida was in New York at
her one-woman exhibition when
Anson Conger Goodyear
commissioned her to paint it, and
she unveiled it a week later. Our
best guess would be in New York.
(Gallery was closed in 1949. Picture
couldn't be found)
‘Self-Portrait with Monkey’ is
currently located at the Albright-
Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New
York. It was donated by Anson
Conger Goodyear, the man who
commissioned Kahlo to paint it.
3. Name: Frida Kahlo
(Born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón)
Nationality: Mexican
Surrealist Painter
Parents: Guillermo Kahlo and Matilde Calderón y Gonzalez
Born: July 6, 1907 in Coyocán, Mexico
Died: July 13, 1954 in Coyocán, Mexico
A few days before her death, Kahlo wrote in her diary: "I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope
never to return — Frida".
(The cause of death was given as a pulmonary embolism, but an autopsy was never performed.
Some suspect the COD to be an overdose)
On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was riding a bus that collided with a trolley car. She suffered: a
broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her
right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. An iron handrail
also pierced her abdomen and her uterus, which left her with an inability to bear children.
As a result of this accident, she neglected her previous study of medicine, and began a painting
career. Of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits.
"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."
Married Diego Rivera (Mexican Painter/Muralist)
They were first married from 1929 to November of 1939 and then remarried in December 1940
(their marriage was extremely troubled, and full of irratability and extramarital affairs)
4. Frida Kahlo was often seen as a
surrealist, even though she
denies connections with them.
She was also a communist, as
well as a rebel and a
patriot, which is kind of
contradicting.
She was a famous painter who
didn't care what anyone else
thought.
Frida was high class, but not
classy.
5. Anson Conger Goodyear
Born in Buffalo, New York
Nationality: Caucasian
(1877-1964)
President of the Museum
of Modern Art in New York from
1929-1939.
In October of 1938, Goodyear
attended Frida's first one-woman
From left to right: Diego
exhibition at the Levy Gallery in
Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and
New York. He saw a painting that Anson Conger Goodyear
he had to have: Fulang-
Chang, but unfortunately, the
painting had already been
promised to someone else.
Instead, Goodyear commisioned
Kahlo to paint a similar self
portrait. A week later, she
unveiled Self Portrait With Left: Fulang-Chang and I
(The painting that Goodyear
Monkey.
originally wanted)
6. A. Conger Goodyear, the
president of the Meusium of
Modern Art, spotted a painting he
really liked by Frida Kahlo in the
Levy Gallery in New York in
1938, so he went to buy it but it
was already promised to
someone else, so she made this
painting for him instead.
The Little Deer
In addition, Frida Kahlo painted
self-portraits of herself so often
because she was so often
alone, and she was the subject
that she knew best.
7. In Mexico, monkeys are a
part of their mythology.
They are seen as symbols of
lust, but Kahlo portrays
them as tender and
protective symbols.
The Mayans of Guatemala
and Mexico worshiped a
howler monkey god
(sometimes depicted as
twin-gods), who was the
patron of the arts; music,
scribes and sculptors.
8. It's a self portrait showing her
looking stern, with her hair up
in a braid. A leafy backround
represents gardens that she
loves, as well as the monkey
that represents animals that
help her fight loneliness in her
lifestyle.
Painting type: Oil on masonite
9. She used a lot of Mexican
influence in the painting such as
her clothes, necklace, and
painting style, which makes it a
representation of the Mexican
culture.
In that the Spanish having
colonized Mexico, it is important
to the Spanish culture through
Mexican influence.
