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Mexican painter · 1907–1954 · Art & Literature
Turned a shattered spine, a stormy marriage and Mexican folk imagery into fifty-five self-portraits that refuse to look away.
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“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
attributed to Frida Kahlo
At eighteen Kahlo was riding a bus in Mexico City when it was struck by a streetcar; an iron handrail went through her pelvis. She spent months in a body cast and started painting with a mirror above the bed. She married the muralist Diego Rivera in 1929 — they divorced, remarried, and hurt each other steadily. She joined the Communist Party, sheltered Trotsky, and painted her miscarriages, her surgeries and her split identity with a flatness borrowed from retablo folk painting. The Louvre bought The Frame in 1939, the first work by a twentieth-century Mexican artist it acquired. Her only solo show in Mexico came in 1953; she attended in a four-poster bed.
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You can put that to the Frida Kahlo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Frida Kahlo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1907–1954, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Frida Kahlo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Frida Kahlo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1907–1954, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Frida Kahlo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Frida Kahlo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1907–1954, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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