Frida Kahlo

1907-54 Mexican painter, b. Coyoacen. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits incorporating a personal symbolism complete with graphic anatomical references. She was also influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, aspects of which she portrayed in bright colors, with a mixture of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married. Although Kahlo's work is sometimes classified as surrealist and she did exhibit several times with European surrealists, she herself disputed the label. Her preoccupation with female themes and the figurative candor with which she expressed them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th cent.
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Frida Kahlo Kahlo painted herself in my Nurse and i in the arms of an Indian wetnurse oil


Kahlo painted herself in my Nurse and i in the arms of an Indian wetnurse
Painting ID::  35564 		Kahlo painted herself in my Nurse and i in the arms of an Indian wetnurse
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Frida Kahlo Frida reworked a retablo she had found by repainting the victims face to resemble her own and writing the micacle performed on the scroll beneath the oil


Frida reworked a retablo she had found by repainting the victims face to resemble her own and writing the micacle performed on the scroll beneath the
Painting ID::  35565 		Frida reworked a retablo she had found by repainting the victims face to resemble her own and writing the micacle performed on the scroll beneath the
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Frida Kahlo After Fride left the Red Cross Hospital,she painted a cityscape of a small,stark rooftop view.On one of the buildings she painted a red cross oil


After Fride left the Red Cross Hospital,she painted a cityscape of a small,stark rooftop view.On one of the buildings she painted a red cross
Painting ID::  35566 		After Fride left the Red Cross Hospital,she painted a cityscape of a small,stark rooftop view.On one of the buildings she painted a red cross
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Frida Kahlo In her earliest documented self-portrait,drawn for a schoolmate in 1922 oil


In her earliest documented self-portrait,drawn for a schoolmate in 1922
Painting ID::  35567 		In her earliest documented self-portrait,drawn for a schoolmate in 1922
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Frida Kahlo This is Frida-s earliest of two attempts to paint al fresco oil


This is Frida-s earliest of two attempts to paint al fresco
Painting ID::  35568 		This is Frida-s earliest of two attempts to paint al fresco
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     1907-54 Mexican painter, b. Coyoacen. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits incorporating a personal symbolism complete with graphic anatomical references. She was also influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, aspects of which she portrayed in bright colors, with a mixture of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married. Although Kahlo's work is sometimes classified as surrealist and she did exhibit several times with European surrealists, she herself disputed the label. Her preoccupation with female themes and the figurative candor with which she expressed them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th cent.

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