Raissa Bretaña on Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
14 January 2023
In the online edition of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, staff members, artists, and special guests are invited to share personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries.
In the YouTube video at the link below, the fashion historian Raissa Bretaña examines Frida Kahlo’s 1940 "Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair" and how Kahlo used her knowledge of fashion to express grief over her divorce from artist Diego Rivera, contrasting with the overt femininity of her previous paintings.
