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- Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, was...
- My Nurse and I, 1937
My Nurse and I, 1937 by Frida Kahlo. This painting depicts...
- My Birth, 1932
There is a puddle of blood under the mother's body which...
- Fruit of Life
Fruit of Life - by Frida Kahlo. In Frida's last days while...
- Roots, 1943
Roots, 1943 by Frida Kahlo. In this painting, Roots, 1943,...
- Henry Ford Hospital
Henry Ford Hospital, 1932 by Frida Kahlo. In this painting,...
- Thinking About Death
Thinking about Death - by Frida Kahlo. During the later...
- The Dream
In this painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of...
- The Wounded Table, 1940
This self-portrait was painted during the end of 1939 to the...
- Self Portrait With Bonito
Self Portrait with Bonito - by Frida Kahlo. The Two Fridas....
- Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
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- Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed) Frida Kahlo 1932.
- A Few Small Nips (Passionately in Love) Frida Kahlo 1935.
- The Suicide of Dorothy Hale Frida Kahlo 1938.
- The Two Fridas Frida Kahlo 1939.
- Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
- The Two Fridas
- Self Portrait with Cropped Hair
- Self-Portrait on The Borderline Between Mexico and The United States
- Henry Ford Hospital
- My Grandparents, My Parents, and I
- The Broken Column
- The Bus
- Self-Portrait as A Tehuana
- The Wounded Deer
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Throughout the course of her career, Kahlo painted 55 portrayals of herself, including Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird. Today, this piece remains one of her most widely-recognized self-portraits, due to the moving context in which it was created and the symbolic nature of its imagery. Kahlo completed this piece in 1940, one year a...
Like Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, The Two Fridas was painted in response to Kahlo's separation from Rivera. In this piece, Kahlo explores two sides of herself. On the left, she depicts herself as a broken-hearted woman clad in a traditionally European gown. On the right, her heart is whole, and she is wearing a modern Mexican ...
Following her divorce, Kahlo sought to reinvent herself. In an act of defiance against her ex-husband, she painted Self Portrait with Cropped Hair. Seated on a bright yellow chair with scissors in hand and locks of hair surrounding her, the artist is shown with a short haircut and clad in a man's suit. Above her floats a pertinent lyric from a Mexi...
Kahlo and Rivera lived in America for a period of four years, between 1930–1934. While her husband thrived in the limelight and found great success among artistic circles—including an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York—, Kahlo experienced many hardships, including failed pregnancies. Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico an...
One of Kahlo's most heartbreaking paintings, Henry Ford Hospital depicts her convalescence at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit after suffering a miscarriage. A series of red veins sprout from her belly and connect her to key elements of what she was going through—a fetus, referencing her unborn child; her pelvis, damaged from the streetcar accide...
My Grandparents, My Parents, and Iis one of two family tree paintings Kahlo ever created. It documents her mixed-race heritage, with her Mexican mother and Mexican maternal grandparents on the left, and her German father and German grandparents on the right. Kahlo includes a depiction of herself as a young child standing at the center and holding t...
“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train, the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.” In 1925, 18-year-old Kahlo was involved in a streetcar accident that left her with a broken spinal column, among many other major injuries. “A man saw me having a tremendous hemorrhage. He carried me and put me on a billiard table u...
In 1929, Kahlo painted The Bus, a depiction that recalls what she had seen moments before the life-altering bus accident, which took place four years earlier. The piece is one of her closest encounters with realism, as opposed to the more surrealistic compositions of her most famous paintings. On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was returning home after a...
One of her most famous artworks, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana—also known as Diego on My Mind—shows Kahlo's deep love for Mexican folklore. Here, she wears the headpiece of a traditional Tehuana dress, created and worn by the Zapotec from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region, in the state of Oaxaca. She also gives a nod to surrealism to show how, despite...
The Wounded Deeris another self-portrait that symbolically addresses the physical and emotional pain associated with Kahlo's injuries. In the piece, Kahlo has depicted herself as a deer—a choice perhaps inspired by her beloved pet, Granizo. Struck by arrows and positioned behind a broken branch (an object used in traditional Mexican funeral rites),...
Explore 10 of Frida Kahlo's most famous paintings and the stories behind them. Learn about her themes, emotions, and influences in her self-portraits and other works.
- July 6, 1907 (Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico)
- Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
- July 13, 1954 (Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico)
- The Two Fridas
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- July 6, 1907
- Coyoacan, Mexico
- July 13, 1954
- Frieda and Diego Rivera. It is as if in this painting Kahlo tries on the role of wife to see how it fits. She does not focus on her identity as a painter, but instead adopts a passive and supportive role, holding the hand of her talented and acclaimed husband.
- Henry Ford Hospital. Many of Kahlo's paintings from the early 1930s, especially in size, format, architectural setting and spatial arrangement, relate to religious ex-voto paintings of which she and Rivera possessed a large collection ranging in date over several centuries.
- My Birth. This is a haunting painting in which both the birth giver and the birthed child seem dead. The head of the woman giving birth is shrouded in white cloth while the baby emerging from the womb appears lifeless.
- My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree) This dream-like family tree was painted on zinc rather than canvas, a choice that further highlights the artist's fascination with and collection of 18-century and 19-century Mexican retablos.
Apr 5, 2016 · These incredible Frida Kahlo photos and facts prove that the renowned Mexican artist lived a painful yet profoundly influential life. Frida Kahlo's tragedies caused the artist immense anguish — but they also helped her create some of the best art of the 20th Century.
Explore the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, famous for her self-portraits, pain and passion, and Mexican and indigenous culture. See her paintings, learn about her relationship with Diego Rivera, and visit the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
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