PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoLegendary artist Frida Kahlo being casually dismissed in contemporary American newspaper headline, 1933lemmy.worldimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down113
arrow-up1222arrow-down1imageLegendary artist Frida Kahlo being casually dismissed in contemporary American newspaper headline, 1933lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 months 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-up2arrow-down4·2 months 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.