Last year it was flamingos and pineapples, llamas and cacti the year before. Is 2020 Frida Kahlo’s year? From planters to luggage labels, rubbers to sunglass cases – mono-browed accessories abound. Instantly recognisable and reproducible with the added frissance of cultural credit. Is it ok to culturally appropriate the artist and reduce her genius to an embossed rubber? I always feel harrumphy when I see Monet’s lilies reduced to a note pad – art as jotter fodder. Or am I being an art snob and Frida Tweezers are a way of bringing her work to a wider audience?
Poor Frida - reduced to a monobrow meme. I used to like her brand of intense and angry paintings but I got very tired of seeing her face everywhere.Very much like Che. All those posters and T-shirts but no one cared about what he was fighting for.
Poor Frida - reduced to a monobrow meme. I used to like her brand of intense and angry paintings but I got very tired of seeing her face everywhere.Very much like Che. All those posters and T-shirts but no one cared about what he was fighting for.