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Frieda Kahlo
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Frieda Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907- July 13, 1954; born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo yCalderon)[2][3] was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán,[4] who is best known for her self-portraits.[5]
Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House. She gave herbirth date as July 7, 1910, but her birth certificate shows July 6, 1907. Kahlo had allegedly wanted the year of her birth to coincide with the year of the beginning of the Mexican revolution so that herlife would begin with the birth of modern Mexico. At the age of six, Frieda contracted polio, which caused her right leg to be much thinner than the other. It was to remain that waypermanently.[6] Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.[7]
Mexicanculture and Amerindian cultural tradition are important in her work, which has been sometimes characterized as Naïve art or olk art.[8] Her work has also been described as "surrealist", and in 1938 André Breton,principal initiator of the surrealist movement, described Kahlo's art as a "ribbon around a bomb".[7]
Kahlo had a volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelonghealth problems, many of which derived from a traffic accident she experienced as a teenager. These issues are represented in her works, many of which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlosuggested, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."[9] She also stated, "I was born a bitch. I was born a painter."[10]
Birth name Magdalena Carmen FriedaKahlo y Calderón
Born July 6, 1907 Coyoacán, Mexico
Died July 13, 1954 (aged 47) Coyoacán, Mexico
Nationality Mexican
Field Painting
Training Self–taught
Movement Surrealism
La Llorona...
Frieda Kahlo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frieda Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907- July 13, 1954; born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo yCalderon)[2][3] was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán,[4] who is best known for her self-portraits.[5]
Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House. She gave herbirth date as July 7, 1910, but her birth certificate shows July 6, 1907. Kahlo had allegedly wanted the year of her birth to coincide with the year of the beginning of the Mexican revolution so that herlife would begin with the birth of modern Mexico. At the age of six, Frieda contracted polio, which caused her right leg to be much thinner than the other. It was to remain that waypermanently.[6] Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.[7]
Mexicanculture and Amerindian cultural tradition are important in her work, which has been sometimes characterized as Naïve art or olk art.[8] Her work has also been described as "surrealist", and in 1938 André Breton,principal initiator of the surrealist movement, described Kahlo's art as a "ribbon around a bomb".[7]
Kahlo had a volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelonghealth problems, many of which derived from a traffic accident she experienced as a teenager. These issues are represented in her works, many of which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlosuggested, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."[9] She also stated, "I was born a bitch. I was born a painter."[10]
Birth name Magdalena Carmen FriedaKahlo y Calderón
Born July 6, 1907 Coyoacán, Mexico
Died July 13, 1954 (aged 47) Coyoacán, Mexico
Nationality Mexican
Field Painting
Training Self–taught
Movement Surrealism
La Llorona...
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