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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.
May 28, 2024 · Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that confront such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Some of her notable paintings included Frieda and Diego Rivera (1931) and The Two Fridas (1939).
Apr 2, 2014 · Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically active...
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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.
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.
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.
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Frida and Diego Rivera, 1931 by Frida Kahlo. In Frida's painting of her and Diego, she recorded the up and downs of her marriage. She draws this painting, Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931, as a wedding portrait. This was completed after two years of their conjugal life.
