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    Frida Kahlo's home, La Casa Azul, was turned into a museum after her death. It now receives over 25, 000 visitors monthly. Frida Kahlo was one of the world’s most famous female Latin American artists famous for her revolutionary self- portraits. Frida Kahlo played a revolutionary role in the globalizing twentieth century, because she influenced feminism, suffered remarkable tragedies, and was remembered for her self- portraits showcasing pain, passion, and surrealism. Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena

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    sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” (Frida Kahlo) Frida Kahlo was born on July 6,1907 she was from Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. She did not go to school she was self taught, but when she went to art school to get advice on her career she saw Diego Rivera and on August 21, 1929 they got married. She had 2 miscarriages which lead to unhappiness but with her art she got better. Frida Kahlo was one of the first women to show that men can not stop women, and inspire

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    The Great Work of Frida Kahlo "Frida Kahlo is the greatest Mexican painter. Her work is destined to be multiplied by reproductions and will speak, thanks to books, to the whole world. It is one of the most formidable artistic documents and most intense testimonies on human truth of our time." - Diego Rivera, Mexican Painter Frida Kahlo was a famous mexican artist born July 6, 1907. She claimed to have been born on 1910, the year that the mexican revolution started. She was proud of the mexican culture

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    the Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo. She was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon in Coyoacan, Mexico, July 6, 1907 and died July 13, 1954. She was one of four daughters born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a mother of Spanish and Mexican Indian descent. Frida Kahlo is the most famous Mexican woman artist on the contemporary art scene. In 1922, Kahlo hung out with a group of politically and intellectually like-minded students. The Mexican mural movement begins. Frida first learns of Diego

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    The Legacy Frida Kahlo Essay

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    Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo are an important aspect of the Hispanic World and well-known names in Latino art. Rivera and Kahlo knew many famous painters such as Duchamp, Siqueiros, Orozco and Picasso. Picasso became a great friend of the family. Kahlo has influenced many places in Mexico. There are many land marks not only in Mexico but around the world. The Frida Kahlo Museum is located in Coyoacan Mexico in her Casa Azul home (blue house), this is the same place Kahlo was born, grew up, lived

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    Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón later known as Frida Kahlo, was an artist known for her paintings. Kahlo born in a village on the outskirts of Mexico City on July 06, 1907 but later on she would change it to 1910 when the revolution began because she wanted everyone to think she was born in the revolution.. Born to a German photographer father and Indigenous heritage mother and had three siblings, Matilde, Adriana, and Cristina. Frida Kahlo lived an eccentric yet tragic life. At the age

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    Frida Kahlo is a Mexican artist and a feminist icon. Frida was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyocoán, Mexico. Frida began painting after she was hit by a bus. Around the age of six she got polio which resulted in her being bedridden for 6 months affecting her legs and that why she all ways where's her famous long skirts. Her father encouraged her to play soccer, go swimming, and even wrestle which was weird for a girl at that time. In 1922, Frida Kahlo enrolled at the very known National Preparatory School

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    I hope all is well and that you are enjoying the remainder of the summer season! I had truly enjoyed your class this summer and I am glad I was able to take your course because it really opened my eyes to the importance of understanding Frida Kahlo as an individual as well as the history and culture that is behind each piece of art. It also was an important reminder to seek out learning opportunities when it comes to other countries histories. It is incredibly important and I am thankful that I

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    Frida Kahlo was born in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico on July 6th 1907. She was raised in a blue house that the neighboring people called casa Azul. He father was a photographer whom immigrated to Mexico from Germany. Her parents met in Mexico, where Frida’s mother lived. Frida grew up with two older sisters and one younger sister. When Frida was about six years old she got the disease polio, causing her to be bedbound for nine months. She had a limp in her right foot, which was affected, during

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    Frida Kahlo is considered to be one of Mexico’s greatest artists. Frida Kahlo is mostly remembered for her self-portraits. She once said, “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.” Frida Kahlo had an exotic look that was captivating. Her unibrow and mustache are prominent in her self-portraits. Becoming a painter was not part of the plan she had for herself. She was a very passionate person and this passion is portrayed in her paintings. Frida Kahlo

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