In Mexico, a tape showed up to listen to the voice of the artist Frida Kahlo is supposed to be. Family and friends doubt it. The examination by experts to take meanwhile.
The news had worldwide caused quite a stir: experts from the Mexican National sound Archives were pushed on a tape recording on which is supposedly hear the voice of Frida Kahlo’s to. A (possible) Sensation, because it would be the first and only recording of the voice of the well-known artist of Latin America is heard.
But now the doubt: relatives and former students are on the increase deny that it is in the recording of Kahlo’s voice. “As far as the family Kahlo-and-white, there are no pictures of Fridas voice,” the nationals, in a statement.
Also, Kahlo’s former students, Arturo Estrada Hernández and Guillermo Monroy Becerril doubt that to hear in the recording, in fact, Kahlo’s voice. Monroy said the Spanish news Agency Efe, he and his friends had lived for a long time practically with Kahlo in the Casa Azul, Kahlo’s house in Mexico city. “I don’t,” said Monroy recognize your voice. “When I met you for the first Time, I noticed that she is a woman with a very sweet, serene voice… Frida’s true voice was very lively, charming and cheerful. She was serious, gentle or fragile… she was clear as glass.”
Voice of an actress?
The hotly debated nearly two-minute recording probably dates from a 1955 broadcast of the Pilot show for “El Bachiller” and was recorded in 1953 or 1954. The broadcast includes a short biography of the painter Diego Rivera, the Kahlo twice married. A woman’s voice reads from Kahlo’s Essay “Portrait of Diego” that was published in 1949 in an exhibition catalog.
Frida Kahlo: Are there any recordings of your voice?
In the course of the debate to the recording of the Mexican actress Amparo Garrido reported to word. “I have taken many things for El Bachiller… I’m almost absolutely sure that I have also added the” said Garrido in the Mexican radio station radio Fórmula. The actress, who spoke, among other things, the “snow white” (in the Spanish Version of the disney movie), dated the recording of “Portrait of Diego” – as well as the experts of the National sound Archives – in the year 1953 or 1954.
Amparo Garridos son, Ishmael, told Radio Fórmula, he had recognized the voice of his mother on the alleged Kahlo recording clearly again. He also expressed doubt that Kahlo’s state of health was at the time of the recording is good enough to read the excerpt as it is to listen to the recording. “Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 and died in 1954, and the recording should be made before 65 years of age, and must date from the year in which she died,” said Ismael Garrido. “That makes things complicated, because they has spent in 1954, practically the whole time in the hospital. In addition, the voice [on the recording, note. d. Red.] one more patch.”
Frida Kahlo has left a number of pictures, but a recording has not been handed down
Test to take
While the doubts are getting bigger and bigger, consider experts at the National sound Archives, whether the voice heard on the recording to Frida Kahlo. The total of 1300 tapes of the show “El Bachiller” should also be catalogued and digitized, in order to check whether to listen to one of Kahlo’s voice.
“The more data and reference material is available, the more resilient the forums is at the end of a statement,” explains Martin Steinebach, head of Department, Media Security and IT Forensics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure information technology. He and his Team have tested for the “Spiegel” and “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, the authenticity of the so-called Ibiza-Videos, the release of which was the collapse of the government in Austria.
DW explains Steinebach, as experts recordings, to listen to the supposedly Kahlo is investigating: “There is biographical information about Frida Kahlo: Where you grew up, who were the parents? The voice fits to a woman in this age, who grew up in this Region? Maybe there’s a regional accent, and comparing, whether the use of the words for the Milieu is typical.”
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Highlights of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up”The iconic defiant look
Frida’s father, Guillermo, came originally from Pforzheim. The photographer suffered from epilepsy and had understanding of the crises, the Frida suffered because of their health problems. Frida posed in his Studio for him, “often directly into the camera, looking, with her typical defiant face,” said Ana Baeza Ruiz, an employee of the exhibition. This portrait dates from 1926.
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Highlights of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up”Frida in color
In the exhibition entitled “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up” over 200 personal objects as well as paintings and photos of the artist. “Frida Kahlo a feminist was a Symbol of the counter-culture. This exhibition clearly shows how Frida Kahlo created her own identity,” says Claire Wilco, the Co-curator. (Photo: Nickolas Muray, 1939)
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Highlights of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up”Traditional Elements
Kahlo used clothing as a political Statement. Part of your artist persona, your “Mestizo”-descent, to which you alluded with your clothes. In the exhibition, many of her personal pieces, including Rebozos (Mexican shawls), Huipiles (traditional tops), Enaguas (petticoats), typical of floor-length skirts as well as accessories from the time before Columbus.
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Highlights of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up”A much-saying coat
After a serious accident in a streetcar, Kahlo was confined for months to a bed. In this time she taught herself the art of painting. With a lot of creativity, you helped through this terrible Phase with the help of their art and the type to get dressed. Here is a Guatemalan cotton coat, including a mazatekischer Huipil and a long skirt.
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Highlights of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up”Auxiliary measures
Also, medicine vials, orthopedic Support, and this prosthetic leg with leather boots, silk appliqués, and embroidered Chinese motifs are exhibited in London. Kahlo had a lot of support bodice and back bandages. Some of the corsets she has painted with religious and Communist symbols, are also visible. Also those on which you processed your miscarriages.
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Highlights of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up”Face detection
Kahlo was aware of against the prevailing ideals of beauty, by nachzog her famous uni-brow with an eyebrow pencil in ebony. This and other cosmetics, some still in their original packaging, are on view in the exhibition. With your strong Make-up, Kahlo emphasized her facial features, such as color photographs by Nickolas show Muray.
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Highlights of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up”Bold and beguiling
The Hungarian-born American photographer Nickolas Muray took some of the most famous Kahlo-portraits. Although she was married to the famous Mexican painter Diego Rivera, she had a decades long affair with the portrait photographers, and was a friend until her death in 1954, with him. Among his best-known photos of this and the following portrait, both from 1939 are.
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Highlights of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up”“Making Her Self Up”
Flowers, thick braids, a downright brazen facial hair, chunky accessories, bold color combinations: These are just some of the features that took advantage of Frida Kahlo to create their very own artist identity – from head to toe. The V&A Museum in London, shows by 16. June to the 04. November 2018, exhibition pieces that were never seen outside of Mexico.
In the whole process of verification, a number of specialists of different areas are involved, the technical analysis is carried out only in the second step. Martin Steinebach had comparable Material on the exam, it would be first digitized, and then possible tracks to pursue: “the device was recorded, from which year the device comes? Tape recordings can have characteristic fluctuations, which is why it checks whether the behavior of the tape fits the role to the devices of the time.”
Since the recording from the 1950s is to be derived, need to be examined by collectors or in archives reference devices, to their own recordings and their fluctuation behavior with the behavior of the material under investigation to be able to compare. “We call it ballistics, the term is familiar in the case of an assignment of a bullet to a gun. The connection of the device and the Medium is the first step.”
Absolute safety there will be
Especially because there are no reference sources to Frida Kahlo’s voice, you will be able to meet after a thorough examination of the material not wholly-owned statement about whether it is, in fact, Frida Kahlo, says Martin Steinebach. “But it is not impossible to check without a reference, if the manner of speaking and voice to the specified Person.” Just Frida Kahlo’s disease a special case.
Suffered a lifetime of pain: Frida Kahlo
At the age of six, the artist had polio. When she was 18, pierced with a steel rod in a bus accident her abdomen, “referred to as the sword of the bull,” as Kahlo’s self. It is more than 30 operations in as many years followed. Often they had to lie for weeks in bed, trapped in a steel corset or a body cast. These restrictions could enable conclusions to be drawn on the speech behaviour. “A medical forensic specialists could assess whether the voice, the way spoken and the air is brought in, fit to the appropriate Person,” explains Martin Steinebach.
Frida Kahlo with paintings in the styles of surrealism and New objectivity to be known, is today a myth – because they won in the male domain of painting your space. The Russian revolutionary and Communist, Leon Trotsky, with whom she had an affair, gave Kahlo a house in which Trotsky kept hidden. Time of her life, she suffered from pain, the processed in your images – 55 of her 143 works are self-portraits. The last few years, spent Frida Kahlo in a wheelchair, died in 1954 at the age of 47 years.