Isn’t she half German and Oaxacan?

Yus!! Been waiting for more people to recognize this incredible Ladino & Sephardi Mexican feminist activist & artist who was so far ahead of her time, that the world's apparently still not ready! People still get stuck in a loop refusing to digest Megdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón's complex culture and life experience. Further, she fell in love with Leon Trotsky, and her most famous self-portrait was painted for him. Diego Rivera was also a Jewish-Mexican (Ladino), but a Converso. Like so many Conversos, he embraced his Jewish heritage, wanting to right the wrong of his family's forced conversion, and tried to encourage more like him to live in the open as they really are: "My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life. From this has come my sympathy with the downtrodden masses, which motivates all my work." - Diego Rivera, 1935 All of this accomplished by Jews of color in the 1930s & 1940s, in spite of Jewish persecution in Europe; they proudly stood behind their identities & their people. This, despite the massacres that plagued Mexico City's first 300 yrs, continuing the Spanish Inquisitions against Conversos believed to be practicing Judaism in secret; and the new type of Inquisition spreading throughout German colonies South America when the NSDAP came to power. They risked everything as Axis spies encroached on Mexico as one of several planned invasion points into the US, and as Stalin embedded an NKVD agent into their inner circle, who'd ultimately assassinate Trotsky.

@@Andreaagutierrez Frida's father was a Jewish-German emigrant, and mother mixed Spanish and indigenous Mexican Converso (Jews force converted to Catholicism during 400 yrs of Inquisitions). That's as far as anyone can logically define "what" Frida is by way of tracing her family's place in a world of rapidly changing borders, social upheaval, and cyclical bouts of Antisemitic persecution globally with "peace time" often few and far between, and still plagued with discrimination. Further, thought-out just the Inquisitions and Holocaust, Jewish records were plundered, destroyed, and hoarded by hostile governments that presently deny their existence as they live under lock & key. Information and personal familial records, are nothing but a weapon stowed away by primarily the modern-day British, German, Spanish, and Russian states. We're not simply talking the theft of census and immigration records, or even Synagogue membership or Converso data - but all records of human existence (i.e. birth certificates, education, residence, employment, paystubs, IDs, deeds, business registration, licenses & certifications, property & tax records, citizenship, gravestones, photographs, autobiographies, journals, writings, academic research, awards, memberships, military service, bank accounts, life insurance policies - and everything else that society uses to discern and confirm that you, in-fact, existed, and where and when you existed) being wholesale collected by state authorities stateside, in all colonies, legally/illegally annexed lands & territories; and countless "temporarily" invaded or permanently destroyed states, duchies, and kingdoms - either hidden or destroyed, on Jewish populations worldwide, virtually non-stop for nearly 2,000 years. So, when you inquire about a Jewish figure's identity, especially a beloved figure like Frida where ideology intentionally obfuscates and manipulates what little is actually known to the public as fact (meaning shared by that figure in their lifetime), and request it to be defined by state & regional borders with long bloody histories displacing indigenous people, vast eras of changing rulers colonizing the same land, and imperialization of minds by state religion & nationalism - there's only, at best (very rarely) up to 3 generations of their family's emigration records (full of misspellings & errors due to language barriers) and/or ship manifests (ships only show where & when one was finally able to obtain safe travel, and when/where they landed). These records don't capture the migrations many times over (there's never a final destination for a persecuted refugee), and today, most historic Jewish villages and ghettos worldwide have been renamed. Then, add to that the fact that Jews didn't have surnames until they were forced by the state starting in the Middle Ages. Surnames, at best, reveal a job someone held (e.g. Schwartzmann = "black man" = blacksmith), or where they lived at one point (e.g. Wolinksy = Volynskyi = Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine = Zviahel, Ukraine). To define someone holding two immovable ethnicities: Jewish and part-Indigenous Mexican, by the present-day name of the state their parents fled unspeakable brutality from, is not only inaccurate; it's wholly irrelevant. It's the wrong question to ask for the jump. Borders don't define human beings. Only our roots and ethnicity, for those who have them, can inform assumptions about our ancestors. What makes an ethnic or cultural identity is actually the shared persecution experienced for generations because solely on their cultural differences - often comparatively relative to the "norms" and so-called "values" of colonizers long long ago. Persecution causes people to cling to their identity, because it's being used as justification for barbarism and injustice against Innocents, and thus the only power a powerless people can wield is to hold on to that culture as rebellion against the colonizers & rulers sending armies, or spreading pan-nationalistic ideology; to destroy. Understand that Frida was most prominent during the Holocaust. Her written communications with her father demonstrate how cryptic they had to be, for both of their safety; never getting to outright discuss their fears eating them alive, nor any memory that involved religious practice. Only frequent mentions Guillermo Kahlo's "prayers to God" for the well-being of his beloved daughter, "Frieducha," without any further religious context, can be found. Self-censorship. And for good reason... Because obviously these letters became public. The Holocaust, contrary to popular belief, wasn't restricted to Europe. Throughout South American and North African colonies of Germany, Italy, Spain, and Britain, (not to mention the massive Soviet operation under the secret German-Soviet Motolotov-Ribbentrop Pact that didn't end in 1945 and goes completely unacknowledged by mainstream historians) - the Holocaust thrived in the shadows of the largely European theater of World War II, starting as early as 1932. Why would Allied leaders draw attention to all the countries across the Mediterranean and Atlantic they didn't liberate? Or acknowledge the atrocities in all collaborationist/Axis nations intentionally misbranded as "neutral"... Or even "Allies?" "Allied" simply means "ally of Britain." Same since WWI and even earlier. Britian acted more as an Axis power until their friend "Blitzed" them for mouthing off about "we gave you Czechoslovakia, if you invade Poland we'll have to declare war... even if we don't mean it." This was also further enabled due to the simple fact that the Allies never fought against the destruction of Jews, and for most nations, it was never a primary or even secondary concern. But for the very few American leaders who did care, it was a liability to be seen as caring due to Antisemitic conspiracy theories calling FDR a "secret Jew" whose "real name" these uncreative losers speculated must be "Rosenfeld" (instead of Roosevelt, get it? Because apparently all Jews wear identifying surnames like a yellow stars of David). With the further expulsion of Middle Eastern Jews starting most aggressively in 1948, even more records and ancient villages and Synagogues have been destroyed and/or hoarded and used as bargaining chips. My family spent years doing our genealogy, and it left us with more questions than answers. European relatives showed up "disappeared" between 1941-1942, including two 1 year old infants, a 16 year old drafted into Red Army without a weapon during Barbarossa; 33 in all dead just under that one surname that's unique to only my family - only discovered when Russia handed over some more records locked-up in the Kremlin, to Israel in 2018... That took years to digitize and translate. The records tell us nothing about where they're from beyond the last ghetto or "transit camp" they were held in. All our records in the Middle East - impossible. We go based on the few family stories, languages, and ship manifests. Fleeing Europe doesn't make you European - just like the push & pull for Mexican identity between the Spaniards, indigenous Mexicans, and lesser known ethnic "tribes." Countless Mexicans are more European than Latino, but nobody calls those people out nor digs into their ancestry unless they're JEWISH. Let's not whitewash Frida for being the daughter of refugees, with one side being part indigenous to the land, not simply the state, of Mexico. There are many native ethnic groups besides just the prevailing Aztecs & Mayans.

Yes I agree ❤ she was so beyond her time

Who did she fight with in the art community?

Same!!!

chilllllsssss!

Me too!!!!

Brilliantly put!!!

It gave me a surge of lighting energy. Such a great way to conclude.

Ha! Thanks so much!

Couldn't agree more. These are excellent.

TV's dead. All the quality content is on youtube.

Exactly

Ay no, porfavor

Great story! Thanks 🙏

@@GreatArtExplained I think the reason why she was a gender non-comformist is because her dad wanted a son and Kahlo had 3 other sisters.

@Dennis Lee Frida was wearing a Rebozo. Mexican hand made shawl. Regards from Mexico 🇲🇽

Her outfits had a lot to do with her respect for the average working class in Mexico. She wanted to show everyone her solidarity with the workers movement, and traditional style. She was a non conformist and also a communist.

She has to be a fucking Leo rising 😂😂😂

Thanks so much - I appreciate the comment 🙏

How nicely you have put it!….al most as intense as the painting ítself

I love this guy ‘s voice and accent!

Thank you for that wonderful description of your experience.🌹

This is sorcery you are describing. I'm petrified, in a curious way.

you should visit her museum La Casa Azul in Mexico City if you ever get the chance!

I went to the house - amazing!

Isn’t it?

Mao? As in Mao zingdong?

@@NobleWolf33 Yup.

@@NobleWolf33I’m guessing she was a communist atheist. She didn’t believe in religion and had communist propaganda and symbols. Wonder why she would take that route? Communism is terrible.

I hope she inspired you to go back to painting, even from your bed - thanks 🙏

@@GreatArtExplained Thank you for kind words 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

stay strong and never give up on your dreams🍀

My father became a paraplegic in the sixty from an industrial accident he was 28. He also was an artist, and was bed for over a year. He painted and did drawings from his bed. keep moving forward ❤

Sending you love and praying for your recovery!

I noticed that discrepancy in the vid too, but you've documented the details much better than I could... Thanx

Even male artists don’t get that so… probably not

Thank you!

@Rachel James you sad little woman.

@Rachel James I agree. It’s ugliness for its own sake.

@@sybo59 you and your “cohort”know nothing which is why you compliment each other so…

@Rachel James you obviously need attention, this explains your tactless comment

The only ones that come to mind for me are Emily Carr, Maud Lewis and Grandma Moses. It is stunning sad how so many talented women have gone unrecognized.

check out zinaida serebriakova, she was brilliant.

Georgia 'O Keefe

@@goldmother2238 Georgia came to my mind too, I love her work.

@Twitty Fatcat - A mere sampling of women artists that I know of --- The woman who created the Bayeux Tapestry (their names may not be known, but their work certainly is), Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, Mary Cassatt, Yayoi Kusama. I wish there were more globally located women on my list.

If you look into it some more, you will see that photographs of her and her artistic expression are quite different. She is communicating something deeper.

Love that Corpse profile picture! :D

😂🤣😂🤣

@@pattyayers ..who has to ask? The comment section is open for a reason.

@@pattyayers I know you’re a troll but you’re probably also the kind of person that would look at a Pollock or Rothko and say “I could have done that”. 🤣

Yes agreed that song Paloma Negra is so incredibly powerful in the scene where she’s drinking and cutting her hair raging over Rivera’s constant infidelities.

Selma hyek went through so much to get that movie produced- Weinstein was being his disgusting self to her so essentially she had to overcome the male Hollywood dominance but in the end it was worth it.

Y faltaron miles de estampas, más crueles que ninguna película de Cleopatra

Oh my gosh, what a story! Glad that frida is an inspiration. Thanks 🙏

@@GreatArtExplained Wow, you actually replied! Thankyou. Yes it was a crazy experience. But sometimes it takes those dramatic changes along your path that Really open your eyes. Freda has always had a place in my heart long before my trampling. . After the accident, I have been laid up. So I started to appreciate painting my pain gave me relief. I finally got that she too must have got great relief in focusing on painting where the Pain and constant Torture lived in her body. Stupidly I showed my paintings to one of my Doctors. In the painting I had removed my right leg and it was hanging behind me in my room, while I am finally able to relax on my bed in the foreground. I was showed him the painting so he could see what techniques was finding useful in dealing with the debilitating constant raw pain late at night. Let's say he wasn't a fan, and he has never had another appointment with me again. Bwahahah! I thought it was positive that the painting of my pain was actually helping me. It focused me so much on the details of where the pain lives inside me that it oddly helped me deal with it. Clearly he didn't see it as a good thing. Bwahahah. I have suggested trying to paint to pain to others who have chronic pain as a way of dealing with it. Sadly Most people just prefer to Zone out on the heavy meds they give you to try and cope. These Heavy meds only move the pain to another room in the house that is my body. They don't ever really get rid of the pain though. Again thanks for sharing this video. It really helped me tonight! Peace 🙏 🇨🇦🐈

May G-d bless you with a whole healing. REFUAH SHLEYMA...

@@asherkrupnik Thank you!💞💗🕯🙏

Way too many

I’m starting to think intersectionality is a cult.

More than one can comprehend. Further, the same happened in Science, literature, philosophy, medicine, and music. Intolerant doctrine and ideology, has stifled and held back scientific and medical advancement for generations - and countless inventions, books, and theories that define our society today were stolen from countless persecuted ethnic/cultural groups. Just the creation of Lutheranism around 1542, held back science for a low estimate of 200 years - because science disproves primarily Christian doctrine. Then see the loudest voices of the Enlightenment cut down Jewish intellectuals, banning them from teaching and criminalizing their writing for up to 20 years at a time because they continued to criticize counter-intellectual movements in science and philosophy that preached Spiritualism, aka the belief in creation of all that mankind can't figure out by the Divine and thus "faith" and "belief" can't be removed from any hypothesis or theory - branding people who exercised too much free thought as "self-centered and indulgent" - leading to an Enlightenment Inquisition of so-called "Atheists" like Spinoza accused of essentially "heresy" against philosophy itself... And by atheist, they always meant "Jewish" because most famous Enlightenment figures (many being appointed to their positions of prestige by the state, no less) realized it started to look bad outside of Europe to be so blatantly Antisemitic. The Germans, for example, get credited with all their "enginuity," but they blatantly stole inventions from Jews, kept Freud's most important unpublished work under lock and key after he fled Austria with nothing but the clothes on his back to a reluctant London in 1938 (only to die a year later), and Einstein was almost killed 4 times during his weeks long escape to the US after months and months and months of trying to secure a work visa from a non-Jewish University to get around the antisemitic Immigration Act of 1924 virtually barring all Jewish emigration just in time for the Holocaust. The Theory of Relativity, nuclear science itself, and much more, would also be credited to the Nazis, had Einstein not escaped. Just imagine how many Einsteins were systematically kidnapped and killed at Dachau, starting years before the NSDAP gained control over Germany.

Leonardo Davinci was gay and a genius.

Thanks so much for the comment - glad you enjoyed it!

@@GreatArtExplained Look how many likes!

True about Frida Kahlo: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pqyWlZBz1q2ZpYE.html

Glad you liked it - thanks for watching 🙏

You have a lovely name

Queen!

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We have a lot more than one lol

Thanks for watching 🙏

For me not .she was arrogant and she ate human meat 🥩 and she was not folloylaw rules . She was bipolar person. People from Mexico knows the she was a bad person narcissist

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@@hope5047 ok

@@hope5047 LMAO

Thanks so much! I loved making this one!

The muralism of Diego is much more better and interesting than the selfish Frida's paintings

@@rpb3348 yes it is from a technical standpoint. But Frida is transcendental my friend, you may not like her paintings the same way you don't like suffering. Her art is tragic, and awfully truthful.

@@rpb3348 his muralism was much better than her work over all we gotta leave gender out of it. This chick is just an over zealous feminist

@@latuya5887 "We gotta leave gender out of it" in the fist sentence. "This chick" in the second. Is this attentional irony?

Thanks!

That’s what I like to hear! 🙏

Thank you for your comment!

I didn’t buy the duality of her identity. Most Mexicans are Mestizos, of European and Indigenous heritage, so she would have been comfortable in a nation of hybrid ethnicity.

I see her pain too …

Thanks 🙏 Greg - much appreciated!

I love art museums. I hope you will visit some. There are tons of great art documentaries and artist bios on KZfaq. Some are short like this one others are longer but they are entertaining and informative. You don't have to know anything about the artist or the history to enjoy art - but I find it enriches the experience. I'm glad you've found inspiration here.

Thanks for watching 🙏

That’s a really nice thing to say - thank you!

Thanks so much - and thanks for watching!

Yes Frida is an avatar and an example for us especially those who suffer. How to fight creatively. I was asked and have been doing presentations "Frida Collaged and Me Too" for many years.

Thank you and Thanks for watching 🙏

Feminist? Mmm I don't know. Her behavoiur about Diego Rivera si not about a real feminist.

@@blackcrow2521 it was a toxic relationship but she was the victim

@@blackcrow2521 in many ways she was a feminist.she was pretty much the only female painter in her circles. was involved with communist sympathizers, which was a male dominated area. the facial hair.

Thanks for the comment 🙏

Thanks so much for your comments. I’m really enjoying making them and Frida Kahlo was such an interesting artist.

Bravo!