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[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could also just be that the author didn't realise Kahlo had already had an artistic career for some years when this was written. She hadn't been widely recognised by that point and had only been in Detroit (the article was published in the Detroit News) for a year, so while the language is quite condescending I can give the writer some benefit of the doubt that she was trying to shed light upon an unrecognised talent

This comment made me realize the article itself was written by a woman, which kind of surprised me given the era.