Category Fine Arts Painting

artist doll, button jointed doll, cloth body, cloth doll, Fine Arts Painting, Frida Kalho, hand made clothes, hand painted face, Margarita J. Hernandez-Maxson, Mexican artist, Mexican women artists, Mexico, muslin dolls, needle felted hair, Oaxaca, paperclay accesories, surrealism, Tehuantepec, wool hair, Workshop Chronicles

Self portrait with thorn necklace and dead hummingbird

Self portrait with thorn necklace and dead hummingbird/Autorretrato con collar de espinas y colibri muertoFrida Kalho, 1940 This painting is very impressing, it talks about Frida facing divorce, loneliness, and physical pain; later she remarried Diego Rivera in December 1940.…

Margarita H Maxson
December 24, 2012

Fine Arts Painting, Margarita J. Hernandez-Maxson, Mexican artists, Mexico, oil painting, Workshop Chronicles

My former work

I was a painter before my baby was born, but just after getting pregnant I could not tolerate the smell of the turpentine and oil painting. Also I thought about the safety of my baby, then I quit painting and…

Margarita H Maxson
April 12, 2010