The artist in forging an identity
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On Friday seven of this month we will Carlos Monsivais was in Puebla, as almost every year or every two years it has become customary, this time the place was the Amparo Museum Auditorium and reason: Frida Kahlo talk about , the great Mexican painter. The event was scheduled at 7:30, started a few minutes later, but with a full, clear, is Monsivais!
- Frida Kahlo
for Monsivais, "is one of the few characters that I will not say I was embedded in the collective imagination, where Of course this vast, but also in the emblem of the Nation and the Nation in the whole, not the Nation or the Nation historical tradition. Who would be in the twentieth century? Emiliano Zapata, Lázaro Cárdenas, Pancho Villa, Francisco I. Madero, all related to the power or resistance to power, Ricardo Flores Magon is extraordinary is that array, and Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are the two artists who have entered this vision constitutes what is undoubtedly the Nation, as represented in an era when the idea of \u200b\u200bnation or tends to decrease was disappearing. "
for Monsivais, "is one of the few characters that I will not say I was embedded in the collective imagination, where Of course this vast, but also in the emblem of the Nation and the Nation in the whole, not the Nation or the Nation historical tradition. Who would be in the twentieth century? Emiliano Zapata, Lázaro Cárdenas, Pancho Villa, Francisco I. Madero, all related to the power or resistance to power, Ricardo Flores Magon is extraordinary is that array, and Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are the two artists who have entered this vision constitutes what is undoubtedly the Nation, as represented in an era when the idea of \u200b\u200bnation or tends to decrease was disappearing. "
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"Frida is the image of public intimacy. Frida photos are now part of the work of Frida, because such is the power of legend, myth, the iconographic contingency that one sees photos of Frida and knows that the center of the pictures of Frida is not is there reflected, but has a strength such that gives the iconic aura photos, which is dazzling and Zapata frankly can only say that, but Zapata is the struggle of a people is to claim land, is the betrayed revolution (...) in the case of Frida is strictly the power of a woman who is confined to the suffering, not get caught in the idea of \u200b\u200bthe artist who painted the suffering, which gives life invalid, notable proportions of speed and change, and what could be variety of love, not promiscuity, that is an issue fraught with guilt traditionalists, but loving variety is what we all want " .
"Frida is the image of public intimacy. Frida photos are now part of the work of Frida, because such is the power of legend, myth, the iconographic contingency that one sees photos of Frida and knows that the center of the pictures of Frida is not is there reflected, but has a strength such that gives the iconic aura photos, which is dazzling and Zapata frankly can only say that, but Zapata is the struggle of a people is to claim land, is the betrayed revolution (...) in the case of Frida is strictly the power of a woman who is confined to the suffering, not get caught in the idea of \u200b\u200bthe artist who painted the suffering, which gives life invalid, notable proportions of speed and change, and what could be variety of love, not promiscuity, that is an issue fraught with guilt traditionalists, but loving variety is what we all want " .
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works Frida, from my perspective, are unique, in them we find the existentialism and surrealism living together without any ideological or aesthetic problem. A Kahlo as many writers and artists, we owe a nation's identity. National Identity As I do not mean to stand in a foreign country when you see the Mexican flag or sing the National Anthem at the Azteca stadium playing each selection. I refer to this ability to respect our history and remember the events that have been formed (tragic and heroic few others) to avoid repeating them. National identity see it as something that reflects from the roots to the most banal and it is understood and valued by a Mexican and appreciated by a foreigner. Is to translate our ideas with a critical sense to our environment. It does not lose this ability to exercise our point of view without fear of being silent.
works Frida, from my perspective, are unique, in them we find the existentialism and surrealism living together without any ideological or aesthetic problem. A Kahlo as many writers and artists, we owe a nation's identity. National Identity As I do not mean to stand in a foreign country when you see the Mexican flag or sing the National Anthem at the Azteca stadium playing each selection. I refer to this ability to respect our history and remember the events that have been formed (tragic and heroic few others) to avoid repeating them. National identity see it as something that reflects from the roots to the most banal and it is understood and valued by a Mexican and appreciated by a foreigner. Is to translate our ideas with a critical sense to our environment. It does not lose this ability to exercise our point of view without fear of being silent.
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The work of writers like Pitol, Del Paso, Poniatowska, and any operator as Vicente Rojo, apart from having a political and ideological to society, is to avoid memory loss. They, the cultural elite, should use his art to reflect its surroundings, no matter the artistic or ideological or interest to pursue, we all have come and we will continue to serve as what we are: a free and sovereign nation, where all it is not apathy to any event of national scope.
The work of writers like Pitol, Del Paso, Poniatowska, and any operator as Vicente Rojo, apart from having a political and ideological to society, is to avoid memory loss. They, the cultural elite, should use his art to reflect its surroundings, no matter the artistic or ideological or interest to pursue, we all have come and we will continue to serve as what we are: a free and sovereign nation, where all it is not apathy to any event of national scope.
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Carlos Monsivais in his book The Hidden Inheritance (Debate, 2007), gives us an example, has devoted 372 pages to talk about those writers of our Mexican nineteenth century not only gave us a romance and very Mexican pre-realism and unique, too forjaron una Patria desde las filas liberales, algunos combatiendo con su pluma, otros más utilizaron las armas y algunos más hicieron uso de ambas. Pero siempre defendiendo sus ideales. Nuevamente son los creadores vinculados con el poder o contra el poder. Creo, ahí debe estar creador, siempre opinando y nunca callado.
Carlos Monsivais in his book The Hidden Inheritance (Debate, 2007), gives us an example, has devoted 372 pages to talk about those writers of our Mexican nineteenth century not only gave us a romance and very Mexican pre-realism and unique, too forjaron una Patria desde las filas liberales, algunos combatiendo con su pluma, otros más utilizaron las armas y algunos más hicieron uso de ambas. Pero siempre defendiendo sus ideales. Nuevamente son los creadores vinculados con el poder o contra el poder. Creo, ahí debe estar creador, siempre opinando y nunca callado.
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