PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoLegendary artist Frida Kahlo being casually dismissed in contemporary American newspaper headline, 1933lemmy.worldimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down112
arrow-up1340arrow-down1imageLegendary artist Frida Kahlo being casually dismissed in contemporary American newspaper headline, 1933lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoOkay amateur, let’s see you produce something as technically crafted, symbolically stylized, and emotionally evocative as she did. If you don’t feel you have enough pain to draw on, we can break your spine and give you Lupus.
minus-squarekemsat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·18 hours agoI’m not an amateur because I don’t paint. But her work looks like something some one in art school could paint today & wouldn’t get recognition.
Okay amateur, let’s see you produce something as technically crafted, symbolically stylized, and emotionally evocative as she did. If you don’t feel you have enough pain to draw on, we can break your spine and give you Lupus.
I’m not an amateur because I don’t paint. But her work looks like something some one in art school could paint today & wouldn’t get recognition.