imageofvoid:soracities:Sebastian Smee, ‘You might think you know Frida Kahlo, but you’ll
imageofvoid:soracities:Sebastian Smee, ‘You might think you know Frida Kahlo, but you’ll never understand her pain’ [ID: … of orthopedic devices. A whole section of the show is devoted to these and to the various medicines Kahlo took. It is a reminder that there is no way to think about Kahlo, no way to come to grips with the power of her art, without also thinking about pain.Her pain. Not yours. Not mine.“Pain is always new to the sufferer,”, wrote the 19th-century writer Alphonse Daudet (who had reason to know), “but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.”We all have gotten used to Kahlo’s pain. She never did. Pain is always fresh and always incommunicable. It splinters the self and impedes all efforts to maintain a coherent self. So it also defeats the desire to be truly understood. /end ID] -- source link