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    Frida Kahlo and artworks
    Frida Kahlo and artworks
    Frida Kahlo and artworks
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    Frida Kahlo and artworks

    By Gerry Souter

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    Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he was an obsessive womanizer, the great painter Diego Rivera was by her side. She won him over with her charm, talent and intelligence, and Kahlo learnt to lean on the success of her companion in order to explore the world, thus creating her own legacy whilst finding herself surrounded by a close-knit group of friends. Her personal life was turbulent, as she frequently left her relationship with Diego to one side whilst she cultivated her own bisexual relationships. Despite this, Frida and Diego managed to save their frayed relationship. The story and the paintings that Frida left us display a courageous account of a woman constantly on a search of self discovery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateNov 14, 2023
    ISBN9781781608531
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    Frida Kahlo and artworks - Gerry Souter

    Self-Portrait with Necklace, 1933

    Oil on metal, 34.5 x 29.5 cm. Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico City

    Biography

    1907:

    Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo is born July 6, in la Casa Azul in Coyoacán, Mexico, daughter of a German, Wilheim Kahlo, and Mathilde Calderón.

    1910:

    Beginning of the Mexican revolution which overthrows Porfirio Diaz. Kahlo adopted this year as that of her birthday, in line with a new Mexico. Considered an accessory by her father who thought of her as a substitute for a son, she became his assistant in his photograph studio.

    1916:

    Polio leaves her right leg handicapped.

    1921:

    The Mexican government orders a large mural from Diego Rivera – returned to the country after fourteen years spent in Europe – to be sent to the National Preparatory School.

    1923:

    Frida Kahlo enters the National Preparatory School, reserved for the Mexican elite. She is one of thirty-five girls in an enrollment of two thousand pupils. She secretly admires Diego Rivera’s painting La Création.

    1925:

    Frida Kahlo suffers a very serious accident. The bus carrying her is involved in a collision with a tramway. She suffers numerous fractures and internal lesions. She must remain confined to her bed, and begins to paint. Through painting, she expresses the struggle of her existence.

    1928:

    Frida becomes a member of the Mexican Communist Party. She meets Diego Rivera.

    1929:

    Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera marry August 21.

    1930:

    Frida Kahlo has a miscarriage in Detroit where Diego Rivera is making a fresco for the Institute of Art before working at the Rockfeller Center in New York. In September, her mother dies.

    1934:

    The couple returns to Mexico. Diego begins his relationship with Cristina, Frida’s sister. Tired of her husband’s attitude, Frida Kahlo moves out and takes Isamu Nogushi as a lover.

    1937:

    Trotsky and his wife take refuge in Mexico and are welcomed at the Casa Azul. The Russian revolutionary has an affair with Frida Kahlo.

    1938:

    André Breton comes to Mexico. The three couples have long discussions about politics and culture. Frida Kahlo has her first exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York: she is able to begin to sell her paintings. She enters into an affair with the photographer Nickolas

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