Frida

Frida Kahlo one of the most known female artist and a feminist icon, was born July 6, 1907 in Mexico. She was the husband of the famous artist, Diego River. Kahlo was mostly known for her self-portraits. Kahlo was paralyzed, due to polio as a child, and suffered many surgeries throughout her life, which inspired many of her paintings. Most of Kahlo’s paintings were about herself and her feelings. Which, most of them were surrounded about herself and her disability. Frida was a surrealism painter

For this reaction paper, I decided to pick the movie that I related to most in the class. Frida is an inspiring, passionate, and informative movie. This movie tells the biography of Frida Kahlo, who was born in 1907 in the city of Coyoacan, Mexico. The film starts with a horrible accident, when Frida was 18 she was on a wooden-bodied bus that collided with a streetcar. She was impaled by a metal pole and she faced challenges from the injury for the rest of her life. I believe that Frida's accident

Frida Kahlo can be called the 'Mexican Salvador Dali' in a long skirt like her counterpart that the artist often introduced in her artworks with elements of surrealism. The difficult fate of Frida Kahlo, the author of the painting Two Fridas, left an imprint on her art. Reality appears to us on her canvases painful, refracted and surreal. Kahlo creates her own reality, fleeing into it from real life and experiences, hiding from adversity and numerous diseases. Perhaps, painting was for her a healing

Hayden Herrera’s book Frida, A Biography of Frida Kahlo (1983) writes with engrossing detail the life story of the famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo known for her folk art with vibrant colors and elements of surrealism. Herrera captivates her audience by telling the challenging journey and the various important obstacles Kahlo had to face throughout her entire life during the twentieth-century. Herrera explains how Kahlo’s various masterpieces have been shaped by her life circumstances and experiences

his/her beliefs and morale which in turn helps us understand and interpret it more clearly. Frida Kahlo 55 works out of 143 paintings by Frida Kahlo have been devoted

Recognized for her eccentric, vivid paintings, Frida Kahlo was one of Mexico’s most notable artists. While observers may find themselves mesmerized by her work, some may not realize the intimacy and profound emotion behind each painting. Kahlo was an artist who utilized painting as an outlet for the physical and emotional suffering she endured throughout her life. From health complications to a troublesome marriage, these adversities would influence Frida’s painting style and content. Decades after

Frida Kahlo, a Mexican woman of many struggles displayed throughout her lifetime, is well-known for her intriguing self-portraits. Kahlo was born in Coyoacan, Mexico, July 6, 1907. She spent 47 years of unfortunate events before succumbing to injuries. At the young age of six, Kahlo was diagnosed with polio during the time it was an epidemic, leaving her right leg shorter and thinner than her other. She was encountered with a freak accident at the age of 18, completely changing her life. The accident

questionable knowledge. Later another artist emerged with the same ability, Frida Kahlo. She used her life as her canvas; allowed people to view the world from behind the surrealistic doors. In addition, she was able to present self-portraits in many forms, all influenced by a tragic bus accident which led to a broken spine that affected her whole life. Described mostly in the film Frida directed by Julie Taymor, and the book Frida: A

Frida Kahlo was an artist who did not shy away from anything in her art. Unapologetically herself, Kahlo put all of herself into her art. While dealing with polio, surviving a near-fatal bus accident, and going through many surgeries throughout her life, Kahlo spent much of her time alone. It was because of all of that alone time that she turned out so many self portraits, perhaps most notably the double portrait, The Two Fridas. Her reasoning for all of the portraits was “I paint self-portraits

Frida Kahlo at birth was named, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon and she was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. She was an extraordinary woman and artist whose life was marked by tragedies which were forever present in her paintings. She portrays her life experiences, Mexican culture and folklore, political views and autobiographical life in her paintings. Frida’s father was Wilhelm Kahlo born on October 26, 1871 in Pforzheim, Germany, a German Jew of Hungarian Descent