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Born Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter. Although moved in the environment of the great Mexican muralists of their time and shared their ideals, Frida Kahlo created a painting quite personal, naive and deeply metaphorical at the same time, derived his exalted sensitivity and several events that marked his life. -
Accident
He suffered a serious traffic accident that fractured her spine and pelvis. In addition to preclude him having children, the accident was the cause of many future operations and an always-precarious health -
Married
He married muralist Diego Rivera; three years later suffered a miscarriage which affected his delicate sensibilities in the deepest and inspired two of his most valued works: Henry Ford Hospital and Frida and abortion, whose complex symbology is known by the explanations of the own painter. Are also very much appreciated his self-portraits, also of complex interpretation: self-portrait with monkeys or the two Fridas -
Unfaithful
the last in 1934. The following year he discovers that Diego has been unfaithful for years, and what affects them most is that one of his mistresses was her younger sister, Cristina, which only takes a year. As a result of this fact, he decides to divorce, at the time that, as a retort to the licentious behavior of her husband, begins a relationship with the American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Some testimonies would explain that their relationship was aborted by a jealous Diego Rivera -
Self-portrait
Other times, as in the self-portrait - framework (1938, National Museum of modern art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), is inspired by the imagery popular and very specifically in the altarpieces loaded that so specifically Mexican naïve and colourful Baroque that combines vividly spectacular with the scatological -
self-portrait
Self-portrait as a Tehuana (1943, Natasha Gelman collection, city of Mexico), represented as Mexican "auténtica" and emphasizing his mestizo features (had Indian, German, and Spanish blood). " -
self-portrait
Self-portrait with monkeys (1943, Natasha Gelman collection, city of Mexico), in which the figure appears cropped on jungle plants and surrounded by animals, or those that takes images of pre-Columbian culture, like my nana and me (1937, Dolores Olmedo collection, city of Mexico). -
Died
When Frida Kahlo dies at 47 years of age, on July 13, 1954, left a series of paintings which correspond to the representation of its evolution as a person, as well as, a series of emotional letters to lovers and friends along with a colorful and candid diary. All this is irrefutable evidence that his life was not nothing less than a search for being honest with herself, including date of birth (1910) and everything else.
