Frida Kalo

FRIDA KAHLO
(Coyoacan, Mexico, 1907-id., 1954) Mexican Painter. Although shifted in the atmosphere of the great Mexican muralists of his time and shared his ideals, FridaKahlo painting created a highly personal, deeply naive and metaphorical at the same time, derived from their heightened sensitivity and various events that marked his life.

Frida Kahlo

At eighteen, Frida Kahlo suffered aserious accident that forced a long convalescence, during which he learned to paint, and most likely influenced the formation of complexpsychological world is reflected in his works. He married the muralist Diego Rivera, had an abortion (1932) that affected the depths his delicate sensibilities and inspired two of his most valued: Henry Ford Hospital and Frida and abortion, whosecomplexsymbolism is known by the explanations painter's own. They are also very appreciatedhis self-portraits, and very complex interpretation: Self-Portrait with Monkeys, The TwoFridas.

 
When André Breton met the work of Frida Kahlo said it was a surreal spontaneous and invited her to exhibit in New York and Paris, the latter city in which there was a great success. He never felt close to surrealism, and atthe end of his days he decided that this trend did not reflect his artistic creation.

Self-portrait by Frida Kahlo

In his search for aesthetic roots in Mexico, Frida Kahlo splendid portraits of children andworks inspired by the iconography of pre-conquest Mexico, but are the fabrics that focus on herself and her eventful life which have made a leading figure of the twentieth centuryMexican painting.

Thomas Alva Edison

(Milan, 1847 - West Orange, 1931) American Inventor, the most brilliant of the modern era. His mother managed to raise the intelligence of the young Edison, who was allergic to the monotony of school. The miracle came after reading a book she gave entitled School of Natural Philosophy, by Richard Green Parker, such was his fascination that he wanted to do forhimself all the experiments and test all the theories it contained. Aided by his mother, installed in the basement of his house a small laboratory convinced he was going to be an inventor.

Thomas Edison

At age twelve, not to mention his passion for the experiments considered in his power to win real money materializing some of their good ideas. His first venture was selling newspapers and candy onthe train that made the journey from Port Huron to Detroit.Had broken the Civil War and the travelers were hungry for news. Edison convinced the railroad telegraphers to present their notice boards in the stations on the development brief headlines of the war, not to mention add to foot the full details appeared in the newspapers, those newspapers sold Edison himself on the train and it goeswithout saying that they are obscured by the hands. At the same time, constantly buying journals, books and equipment, and came to convert the baggage car of the convoy in a new laboratory. He learned to telegraph and, after getting a low price and a second-hand printing press began to publish their own newspaper, the Weekly Herald.

In subsequent years, Edison made a pilgrimage to different citiesout working as telegrapher at various companies and spending their free time to investigate. Boston built a device to automatically record the votes and offered it to Congress. The politicians believed that the invention was so perfect that there was no alternative but to reject it. That same day, Edison made two decisions. First, that he would never invent anything but, in addition to innovative,practical and profitable. Secondly, he abandoned his career as a telegrapher. He then formed a partnership and went to work.

He perfected the automatic telegraph, invented an apparatus for transmitting the oscillations of securities, helped build the first typewriter and gave practical application to the phone via the adoption of the carbon microphone. His name became known, his inventions...