The doll with one eyebrow

[tikistitch]

You've thrilled to her surrealist works and guzzled her tequila....

Now buy the doll!!

Frida Kahlo dolls outrage Mexican art lovers

A plan by a Mexican company to create a Frida Kahlo doll has created a controversy in the artist's homeland.

Kahlo, the famed Mexican painter who died in 1954, has a wide international following. Her family has been able to parlay her popularity in Mexico into a line of jewellery, clothing and a brand of tequila with her name on it. The doll is the newest addition.

"We know there are people who will not like it and they are within their rights to think what they want. We are looking after Frida's image," Mara de Anda, the granddaughter of Kahlo's niece, told Reuters.

The 20-inch Kahlo doll will be available in Canada, as well as Mexico, the United States, Germany, France and Spain.

Comments

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Maybe JP will come out with a unibrowed Pullip! Yeah, and she can have a monkey mascot!! And her collectible card will have both eyes on one side of her face!

(They should SO put me in charge of design concepts, right??) ^o^

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

A monkey! Yes, it MUST have a monkey!!

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

^0^ Seriously, I'll be suprised if the 'official' one does NOT have a monkey, at least as an accessory...

[hooverdam.livejournal.com]

I'll buy it if I can get the "hosting a party while on a stretcher" playset. Also if there's a Diego Rivera with special socialist mural painting accessory set.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

And dreamy bf Trotsky!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I want one.

Also, "It is against Mexican law to depict Frida Kahlo!"

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you can paint like her after you drink some of the Frida Kahlo-brand tequila.

[rabidleroy.livejournal.com]

I have learned about Frida Kahlo in art class and I heard she uses expressions in most of her paintings. :)