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  • The Scream

    Painted in 1893, I used to think the figure in Edvard Munch’s The Scream, was screaming. In fact, the painting is based on Munch’s personal experience of an anxiety attack while out for…

    30 September 2022
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • The Diary of Frida Kahlo

    “All of this in order to say that Kahlo entered her box in the second tier of the theater, all of these splendors and distractions came to nought. The jangling of sumptuous…

    31 August 2021
    Musings of a Modernist Mind

  • Finding Frida!

    I was scrolling through Twitter a few weeks back and I came across the photo above. Salvador Dalí and Frida Kahlo. What kind of intellectual, surreal conversations filled that studio? Was it…

    31 May 2020
    Musings of a Modernist Mind