frida kahlo

"I picture myself because I spend too much time alone and because I am the subject I know best "
Frida Kahlo
He was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, south of Mexico City . It was the third offour daughters to Matilde Calderón and Guillermo Kahlo German Jewish photographer.
In 1913 he suffered an attack of poliomyelitis which permanently affected the use of his right leg.
Being a young manof 16, when he was studying at the National High School of this city met Diego Rivera , who was painting his mural Creation in school. He was fatally injured in a streetcar accident . In recovery, iswhen you start your Frida painting. Three years later, Diego Rivera featured some of his early work and he encouraged her to continue painting . On August 21, 1929 married. She was 21 and he was 46 .Rivera 's work influenced her work , gave color to large areas naive and simple way intentionally . As her husband wished that his painting was evidence to the Mexican often using themes of folkloreand folk art of his country. Then enter the fantastic factor in free introspection juxtaposition of incongruous objects that enhance the impact of his work , which was associated with the Surrealistmovement . His paintings mainly expose the painful aspects of his life , largely bedridden . Expresses the disintegration of his body and suffered terrible suffering in works such as The Broken Column(1944 , Collection Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City ) , which appears with a metal brace with open body and showing a broken column instead of the spine.
His pain at the inability of the plasma maternityHenry Ford (1932, Collection Dolores Olmedo) Hospital , where a baby and several objects, such as a pelvic bone and a machine, scattered in a hospital bed where lies are appreciated while undergoingan abortion. A Few Small Nips paints in (1935 , Collection Dolores Olmedo) .
Divorces In 1939 Diego Rivera (but remarried in 1940) year running his work The Two Fridas (1939 , Museum of Modern Art...