Paper On Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was one of Mexico greatest artists but it didn’t happen so quickly. Frida was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoan, Mexico; she was on of the four daughters born into her family. Her father was Hungarian-Jewish and her mother was Spanish and Mexican descent. When Frida was around the age of six she was affected by polio in her right leg it caused her to be in bed for nine months. Her father was the one taking care of her making sure she regularly exercised her leg and foot. She was a survivor of polio despite her surviving polio her leg and foot remained deformed. To hide her leg and foot she will wear pants or long skirts to cover them. Surviving polio made her want to enter a program for pre-med

Frida Kahlo One of the greatest painters in Mexico, known for her meaningful and tragic paintings about her life, was Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo was a well known painter that was recognized by Picasso and along with many other famous painters. Kahlo loved the freaky and unique paintings she would paint. She lived a life that affected her until her last breath.

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 polio. Even though her right leg was damaged her dad wanted her to be active. She played soccer, went swimming, and even wrestled. When she reached the age of 15 she decided to enroll in the very well known and prestigious National Preparatory School.

Frida Kahlo, was born in July 6, 1907 in Mexico City, Mexico. Three years Before the Mexican Revolution started. In her diary Frida would always tell people that she was born in 1910 instead of 1907, she can have some correlation to the revolution.. Her father was a German Photographer who immigrated to Mexico and meet her Mother. Frida has two older sisters and one younger one. At the age of six she developed polio on her right leg. While she was recovering Frida spent a lot of time with her father. He taught her how to take photos, got her interested in painting and even taught her how to play sports to help herself recover. Sports that weren’t so common for girls at that time; soccer, roller skating, swimming, boxing and wrestling. To Frida her father was a great man who accepted her the way she was. He always encouraged her. On September 17, 1925 when she was 18 years old Frida was involved a car crash and injured her spin. While in bed rest Frida started painting to take up her time. Starting the beginning of her painting Career.

1. Frida Kahlo is one not only Mexico's most iconic artists, but one of the world's most iconic artists as well. She was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyocoan Mexico City, Mexico. Her father was of German descent and migrated to Mexico where he met her mother, who was half Spanish and half AmerIndian. She also had three sisters. Frida was always very close to her father, and was very proud of her Mexican heritage. During her childhood, she contracted a disease called Polio. She was very ill and had to stay in bed for a whole 9 months. The disease caused her right leg to become much skinnier and weaker than the left one. She had a permanent limp because of it and always wore long skirts to hide it. She met her future husband, Diego Rivera, when she was in preparatory school. One day in 1922, she was on a Bus and got in a horrific accident. She was severely injured, as a steel rail impaled her through the hip. During her period of recovery is when she began to paint her famous self-portraits. Frida and Diego reconnected in 1928 and them married in 1929. Their marriage, however, wasn't a healthy one. Diego cheated on Frida many times and they lived in separate houses. Frida, given her condition was always very depressed. She sadly passed away in 1954. Her death was reported to be caused by a pulmonary embolism, but many suspect her death may not have been accidental.

Frida Kahlo's influence still lingers around the world. Even with Frida dead for almost two decades, she is still celebrated and thought of as an idol. Frida Kahlo was an artist in many different ways. Besides Frida's incredible talent to paint surrealist thoughts and emotions on canvas, she also was and artist in her mind and body. Frida's attire of traditional Mexican clothing, which consisted of long, colorful dresses and exotic jewelry, and her thick connection eyebrows, became her trademark. To the public, Frida Kahlo appeared to be full of spirit and joy. She walked through life happily, with a smile glued to her face. However, her feelings of anguish, anger, unhappiness of her painful miscarriages, and

The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo 1. Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. She grew up with her parents and three sisters in a blue house built by her father. Kahlo’s father, Guillermo Kahlo (1871-1941), was a German immigrant. Many sources have said he was of Jewish heritage, but recent genealogical research has shown he was from a Lutheran family.

Frida Kahlo is a very interesting person whom has been through a lot in her short life. Though there is so much to say about the past of Frida Kahlo from her ghastly affair’s and man like tendencies. Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 and lived in a house that her father built in Mexico City (Tuchman). Kahlo was a hard working woman but who had a horrible temper. When Kahlo was engaged with Rivera at the age of twenty-one, her father even gave a warning to Rivera. That Frida was “a devil” and Rivera replied “I know it (Tuchman).” Throughout Kahlo’s life time she only produced around two- hundred paintings. Her paintings were all relatively still portraits of herself and of friends and family. She was good at creating hunting, and sensual original paintings and that fuse the elements of surrealism (Tuchman).

Frida Kahlo is an interesting artist to learn about. Not only about her deep, complex and surrealist style, but also how it came to be. Unlike other artists who paint from a single point of view; Kahlo is able to show multiple perceptions of what she was feeling or trying to express. How people are not one type of person, but can be multifaceted in their lifetime. Frida shows this in many of her paintings. You can see this especially in The Two Fridas and Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird.1

Artist Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City, Mexico. She grew up in the family’s home where she was born. Her father, Wilhelm, was a German photographer who had immigrated to Mexico where he met and married her mother Matilde. She had two older sisters, Matilde and Adriana, and her younger sister, Cristina, was born the year after Frida. She grew up being an atheist.

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.

Frida Kahlo was one of the most influential female artists in the twentieth century. Being a woman in a misogynistic career, Kahlo did not experience the fame she has today while she was still alive. Through her captivating paintings she reveals the dark side of life, relating to her own experiences. Many articles, bibliographies, movies, and even Frida Kahlo’s diary have been published for scholars, artists, and feminists to discuss the influence Kahlo had on art and society. Although the movie Frida was released forty-eight years after Frida Kahlo’s death, the movie accurately depicts her dismal life and her connection to her artwork.

The history behind her artwork is a representation of her life story, painting in each portrait that she would present to the public. Frida Kahlo was born in the Coyoacan, Mexico on July 6, 1907, as Magdalena Carmen Frida. She was born, of Guillermo Kahlo, and Matilde Calderon. Married the Artist Diego Rivera, on August 21, 1929, were they married in the historic town hall of Coyoacan. Her artwork were a form of telling her life in a way that people couldn’t understand with words but were able to view it in on the notion painted in a portrait. Frida Kahlo created about 140 painting and with the dozens of drawing and 55 self-portraits in which she often incorporated symbolic portrayals and psychological damages (Zamora, M. 1990). The talent of Frida Kahlo begun when she was very young started after she got involve in a car accident at age eighteen years old which it kept her bedridden for three months. The artist lived in constant pain due to the accident and scoliosis that started after age eleven, polio slightly crippled her living her with muscle paralysis and deformities in the right leg (Tibol, R.1993). She went into many surgeries, and which her right leg was amputated as the last result. Her surgeries were all in vain because the pain was never resolved. Frida Kahlo on July 13, 1954, at the age of forty-seven died. the causes of death were said to be probably an overdose of narcotics (Rummel, J 2000).

Her self-portraits have been described as being surreal, but Frida answered such comments with, "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”

Frida Kahlo was one of Mexico’s greatest artists who painted mostly self-portraits. When Kahlo was a child she was diagnosed with polio, which is an infectious disease caused by a virus. She used pain, passion, bold and vibrant colors in her paintings. Her paintings were so good that Mexico celebrates her because she paid attention to the Mexican and indigenous culture. She loved to paint about her lifetime and her physical and emotional pain.She was described as a surrealist painter, which is an artist who adds to the movement in art and literature which releases creativity. Some of her self-portrait paintings include the ‘Frieda and Diego Rivera’, the ‘Henry Ford Hospital’, ‘The Suicide of Dorothy Hale’, ‘The Two Fridas’ as well as ‘The Broken Column’. She later was involved with in an accident on September 17, 1925. One of her friends and her, were in a romantic friendship. They went on a journey on a bus when the vehicle hit another car. Following the collision, Kahlo was then hit by a street handrail that went into her hip and came out the other side. She experienced several injuries, including fractures in her spine, a broken pelvis, her collarbone and ribs were also fractured, not only that but she had a broken foot and dislocated shoulder.. She was rushed to the Red Cross hospital in Mexico City for weeks. During her recovery time, she was painting and finishing her first self-portrait, she gave it to her friend Gomas Arias. The painting was called ‘Self-Portrait