Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1940

“Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair” was the first self-portrait legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted after her divorce from Diego Rivera. Expressing the anguish of her loss and renouncing her feminine image, Kahlo (1907 – 1954) has just cut off the long hair Rivera adored, and is wearing a suit that probably belonged to him. The artwork suggests Kahlo yearned for the freedom and independence of a man. In the piece, she is surrounded by a vast empty space evocative of her loneliness and despair, compounded by the song verse above her: “See, if I loved you, it was for your hair, Now you’re bald, I don’t love you anymore.”

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