Frida Kahlo and artworks
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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