Title: Library
of Luminaries: Frida kahlo
Author: Zena
Alkayat
Illustrator:
Nina Cosford
Publisher: Chronicle
books LLC
ISBN: 9781452150239
Genre: Biography,
Non Fiction
Pages: 135
Rating: 5/5
The moment I
started reading this book I knew this would be an indescribable piece of art
and book proved me right. Basically Zena alkayat described a life history of
Frida Kahlo in a most beautiful manner. I didn’t know anything about frida
except that she was a flawless painter who had lived her artistic charm.
But when we take glance an artist we only observe the upper surface where the success blossoms, we forget to unfold their life history. And literally I was in tears when I was going through this book. how could someone paint grief. Life was tough for her, beyond our imagination still she lived it gracefully.
“I believe that by working i will forget the sorrows and i will
be able to be a little happier.”
“my paintings are the most frank expression of myself, without
taking into consideration either judgments or prejudices of anyone.''
It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. —Frida
Kahlo
Illustrations are so beautiful that you don’t feel to stop in middle.
How an accident shattered her childhood, she had been living not only with
physical pain but she struggled with the pain in relationships. She was a
painter but more than that She was a Lover, An inspiration, A Life with
creative Vision.
ABOUT
AUTHOR
Zena Alkayat is a journalist, author, and editor based in London.