Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907.
Frida’s full name was Magdalena
Carmen Frida y Calderon. Frida grew up
in La Casa De Azul (The blue House.) She
grew up in a town just outside of Mexico
City. Frida had two older sisters, Matilde
and Andriana, and her younger sister,
Cristina, was born the year after Frida.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo and
http://www.biography.com/articles/Frida-Kahlo-9359496
This is the house that Frida Kahlo grew
up in this was referred to as La Casa De Azul.
Which means The Blue House.
Frida began painting after she was
severely injured in a bus accident. On
September 17, 1925, Kahlo and Gomez
Arias were traveling together on a bus
when the vehicle collided with a streetcar.
As a result of the collision, Kahlo was
impaled by a steel handrail, which went
into one hip and out the other side. She
suffered several injuries as a result, including
fractures in her spine and pelvis.
http://www.biography.com/articles/Frida-Kahlo-9359496
After Frida’s
accident this is
what she looked
like. She was put
into a full body
cast in order to
recover.
Kahlo contracted polio at age six,
which left her right leg skinnier than her
left. Kahlo disguised this by wearing long
and colorful. It has been conjectured
that she also suffered from spina bifida, a
disease that effected her spine and leg
development. As a girl she participated
in boxing and other sports.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
This is a selfportrait of Frida
when she was
younger. This was
probably made
when she was in
her late teen years.
After the accident, Kahlo turned her attention
away from the study of medicine to begin a fulltime painting career. The accident left her in a
great deal of pain while she recovered in a full
body cast; she painted to occupy her time during
her temporary state of immobilization. Her selfportraits became a dominant part of her life when
she was immobile for three months after her
accident. Kahlo once said, "I paint myself because
I am often alone and I am the subject I know best."
Her mother had a special easel made for her so
she could paint in bed, and her father lent her his
box of oil paints and some brushes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
Kahlo enjoyed
painting self-portraits. She
loved to be her own
model. This is a portrait of
Kahlo.
Kahlo was married to another artist by
the name of Diego Rivera. The two artists
met when Kahlo asked Rivera for advice
on how to pursue her artistic career. The
couple got married in 1929. This marriage
did not last. The couple eventually
separated in later years. After a few
years of separation the couple remarried
in 1940.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
The two People
in this picture are
husband and wife.
Kahlo (left) and
Rivera (right) were
married for awhile
then separated then
remarried.
Although Frida’s work, often fantastic and
sometimes gory, has been described as
surrealism, she once said that she never knew
she was a surrealist “until Andre Brenton came
to Mexico and told me I was one.” Kahlo’s
work was extraordinary to many. Some of her
best paintings are of herself. Although, many
did not think that she was beautiful, that did
not stop her. One of her favorite things was to
be her own model.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/life/index.html
Frida
Loved to be
her own
model. In this
portrait of
herself she is
painted as a
deer with a
human head.
Frida died on July 13, 1954. She had been very
ill throughout the previous year and her right leg
had been amputated at the knee. Despite more
than 30 subsequent operations, Kahlo spent the
rest of her life in constant pain, finally succumbing
to related complications at age 47. Many think
that Frida may have died of an overdose, that
may have been accidental. Many also think that
her death may not have been accidental. Frida
died at age 47.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo and
http://www.fridakahlo.com/bio.shtml
Diego had
said on the day
that she said h
had said, “The
day Kahlo died
was the most
tragic day of his
life, adding that,
too late, he had
realized that the
most wonderful
part of his life
had been his
love for her.”
She was born to a Hungarian-Jewish
father and a mother of Spanish and
Mexican Indian descent, in the Mexico
City suburb of Coyoacán. traveled to
the United States and France, where
Kahlo met luminaries from the worlds of
art and politics; she had her first solo
exhibition at the Julian Levy Gallery in
New York City in 1938.
http://www.fridakahlo.com/bio.shtml
Frida had many interesting things that happened in her life. I think that
that Frida’s paintings were amazing and she did many wonderful things.