Frida Kahlo

Frida

Victim of a terrible accident that trapped her under a plaster vest for life, the pain of Frida was portrayed in her paintings. The self-portraits and representations of scenes from hospitals or medical procedures were portrayed in a way to make the viewer share their pain. She pencil portrayed the scene of her bus accident without regard for rules or perspectives.

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon, known as Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico, for a life full of mishaps. Frida was a revolutionary. Unlike the elite of her time, she liked everything that was truly Mexican: jewelry and clothing, saints, street markets and really spicy food. Loyal to her country, the painter liked to declare herself as “daughter of the Mexican Revolution” by saying that she was born in 1910. Communist activist and cultural agitator, Frida used strong paint colors to stamp in her paintings, mostly self-portraits, a tumultuous life of physical and emotional pain. At six years old she contracted polio and remained a long time in bed. She recovered, but with her right leg was affected. Having then to live with a leg thinner than the other.

Later in 1925, at age of 18, her life changed tragically. It was September and the bus where Frida and her boyfriend Alejandro were, crashed into in a train. Frida was welt by an iron that intersected the abdomen, spine and pelvis. She suffered multiple fractures and surgeries (a total of 35) and stayed in bed for a long time. Frida was the picture of bad luck. In her painful convalescence, she began to paint frantically since her mother hung a mirror above her bed. Frida always painted herself: 'I paint myself because I am often alone and because I am the subject I know best.' Her anxieties, her experiences, her fears and her love for her husband, the Mexican painter Diego Rivera, with whom she marries in 1929. Rivera, socialist, was the most important Mexican artists of the 20th century and was part of the mural movement, which advocated accessible art. When married Frida, her family compared the union to the wedding of an elephant with a dove - he was immense and 21 years older. They formed the most original couple of artists of the time. Frida suffered for her husband, but also lived parallel romances with women and men, with the most famous Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Despite the betrayal of her husband, the greatest pain Frida was the inability to have children (although it has been pregnant more than once, the accident consequences made ​​it impossible to carry a pregnancy to the end), which was clear in many of her paintings. However, despite numerous affairs with other women, Diego helped Frida to reveal herself as an artist. In 1930, they came to the United States, to work and for exhibitions. Frida, more Mexican than ever, shocked everyone with his clothes, laughs and gestures. In Detroit, pregnant, she suffered a miscarriage, the fact that it happened more than once took away her dream of being a mother. During this period, Frida began producing paintings inspired on her loss, the hospital’s room and her feelings. Back to Mexico, still had to overcome the death of his mother Matilda (victim of cancer), more abortions and some crisis in her marriage to Diego, who betrayed her even with her ​​younger sister, Cristina.

In 1939, alone, she

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