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Frida Kahlo Biography

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter born in 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. At age 18 she was injured in a bus accident that left her unable to have children. During her recovery she began painting, often creating self-portraits that explored her pain, identity, and marriage to muralist Diego Rivera. Her works gained recognition in the art world in the 1930s-1940s, though she rejected the label of Surrealist. Kahlo continued painting despite severe lifelong health problems and pain. She died in 1954 at age 47 after battling chronic pain and infections from her injuries.

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Frida Kahlo Biography

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter born in 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. At age 18 she was injured in a bus accident that left her unable to have children. During her recovery she began painting, often creating self-portraits that explored her pain, identity, and marriage to muralist Diego Rivera. Her works gained recognition in the art world in the 1930s-1940s, though she rejected the label of Surrealist. Kahlo continued painting despite severe lifelong health problems and pain. She died in 1954 at age 47 after battling chronic pain and infections from her injuries.

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Frida Kahlo biography

Who Was Frida Kahlo?

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon, she was born in Coyoacan, Mexico in
1907, Frida died in Mexico City on 1974, she was a very famous mexican painter,
at 18, she was involved in a spectacular accident that forced her to rest for quite
some time. During that time she learned to paint.

She was married to the muralist Diego Rivera, three years later; she was expecting
her first baby but suffered a miscarriage that deeply affected her delicate sensitivity
which inspired two of her most precious works: Henry Ford Hospital y Frida y el
aborto, its complexity and symbolism was only explained by she.

The self-portraits that she made of herself were highly valued in the artistic world,
some of them were: Autorretrato con monos o Las dos Fridas. When André
Breton learned about Frida Kahlo's works, he affirmed that the mexican was a
spontaneous surrealist and invited her to exhibit in New York and Paris. Frida was
never happy near surrealism, and in the end she openly rejected that her artistic
creations were framed in that trend.
During the 40s, Frida was completely involved in the artistic world, many painters
supported her work.

People thought that Frida Kahlo's talent would be overshadowed by being married to
Diego Rivera and the reality was that even with Diego, she was very recognized. Her
impact was too much that in 1938 she obtained her first solo exhibition at the Julien
Levy Gallery in New York.

All his works were exhibited in Mexico City, Paris, New York, Boston, and other
North American capitals. She was part of the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana as a
founding member in 1942, in 1943 she entered and was a teacher at the Escuela
Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, La Esmeralda.
In 1953 one year before his death, the Lola Álvarez Bravo Gallery prepared an
exhibition, this was totally individual.
Frida's physical and health problems were so severe that they kept her in bed for
long periods of time. The artist continued her pictorial activity and created
magnificent portraits, full of symbolism, depth and personality. This was the case of
Los ojos de Frida, a work that reflects the suffering and passion for the Mexican
tradition. Pain and the proximity of death, which the artist felt close to, were
recurring themes on her canvases.
In 1950 his health was not improved and worsened due to an intervention on the
spine that caused major problems, in 1954 the artist's pain was so great that she
tried to commit suicide twice, because she could no longer bear the pain she felt.
It was in that same year that Frida Kahlo lost the battle against pain and died at
the age of 47, she was veiled at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in a coffin covered by
the communist flag.

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