Frida Kahlo Challenge Winner!

The great Frida Kahlo Challenge was quite a success! There were eleven entries, five from the Spanglish Team and six from the Etsy Owl Team. Everyone had great fun interpreting this fabulous artist in their own way.

The winners were,

1st place: Lolos 27 ( 36% )
2nd place: squarejane 20 ( 27% )
3rd place: BululuStudio 17 ( 22% )

We thank all of you for your enthusiasm and in particular the Etsy Owl Team for working with the Spanglish Team in a joint challenge, let's do it again!

First Place

Lolos


Second Place
squarejane


Third Place
BululuStudio

Viva Frida Kahlo!

By Lolos

FRIDA KAHLO
On her 102nd anniversary

It is impossible to write about Frida Kahlo without creating a whirlwind of contradictory feelings mixed with admiration and horror. One of twentieth century's most important and revered artists, Frida literally embodied pain and tragedy and used art as a process of spiritual and metaphysical transformation

When she was a teenager, Frida was pierced by a metal handrail in a tragic trolley accident. The railing entered through her spinal cord and exited through her pelvis. She converted her ravaged body into some of the most memorable images that haunt our dreams. Her psychic and physical pain became a revolutionary metaphor of politics and feminism, of sexuality and subversion.

We think that her art is a lesson in artistic integrity, and the intensity of her emotions and fierce loyalty to her country has inspired women from all walks of life, but in particular Chicanas and Latin American artists, to create an alternative cultural expression, not constrained by gender but defined by artistic focus and a way of producing.

Facing her self-portrait, Frida acknowledges, "I have spent my whole life dying."

FRIDA KAHLO, /The Two Fridas/, 1939. Oil on canvas, 68 1/4 x 68 inches. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.

But that acceptance and sublimation of pain into art has given us, artists and craftspeople more that one reason to live and enjoy every minute of our work, making our obstacles and difficulties easier to accept and conquer. Thank you Frida.

Frida painted this eight days before she died. She called it “Viva la Vida”, an untranslatable play of words to Live and Life.




Challenge Items!

Spanglish Team
Participants:
Lolos, Piruli
tumbleweedstudios
ChickBoutiqueJewelry, BululuStudio


Etsy Owl Team
Participants:
lalala08
KatsCozyKrafts, hollystott, suenosdejmi
squarejane, taw0106


To vote for your favorite item just click here

Frida Kahlo Challenge!

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in the house of her parents, known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán, Mexico.

The coming July 6th marks the 102th Anniversary of one of twentieth century's most important and revered artists, Frida Kahlo, who literally embodied pain and tragedy and used art as a process of spiritual and metaphysical transformation.

The Spanglish Team and Etsy Owls Team have gotten together to jointly create a commemorative challenge to celebrate this important event and share with other members one of the inspirational forces behind some of the most important feminist and social movements of our time, both in the US and in the rest of Latin America and the many artistic expressions that it has inspired.

The challenge consists in creating unique items inspired by Frida’s work, life, times, influences etc.

The items will be displayed in our Etsy shops beginning the 3rd of July until midnight the 5th of July.

The voting to select the favorite will be conducted on the Etsy Owls team blog and will run for one week, ending Monday 13th of July at 10 pm eastern time.

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird/
Autorretrato con collar de espinas y colibrí,
1940, (Nickolas Muray Collection)