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What the Water Gave Me.
- Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940, By...
- My Nurse and I, 1937
The nurse seems just feeding Frida and displays her like a...
- My Birth, 1932
My Birth, 1932 by Frida Kahlo. Diego Rivera, Frida's dear...
- Fruit of Life
Fruit of Life - by Frida Kahlo. In Frida's last days while...
- Roots, 1943
Paintings; Drawings; Diaries; Photos; Quotes; 10 Fun Facts;...
- Self Portrait With Bonito
Frida Kahlo Voice; Timeline; Biography; Paintings; Drawings;...
- Magnolias, 1945
In Frida Kahlo's painting, in the center of the bunch of...
- 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 the meanings behind 10 of Frida Kahlo's most famous paintings, from her self-portraits to her family tree. Learn how she used symbolism, color, and personal experiences to express her identity, emotions, and heritage.
- July 6, 1907 (Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico)
- Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
- July 13, 1954 (Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico)
- The Two Fridas
In addition to painting portraits of several new acquaintances, [26] she made Frieda and Diego Rivera (1931), a double portrait based on their wedding photograph, [27] and The Portrait of Luther Burbank (1931), which depicted the eponymous horticulturist as a hybrid between a human and a plant. [28]
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.
Learn about Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter who explored her identity and reality in her self-portraits. See her works online, listen to audio, and find publications at MoMA.
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Explore the life and art of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter who used self-portraits to express her identity, pain, and politics. See examples of her surrealist and magic realist style, and learn about her influences, themes, and legacy.
