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Discover the paintings of Frida Kahlo, a renowned Mexican artist who expressed her identity, emotions, and politics through her self-portraits and other works.
- 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
This painting can also be compared with another Frida's...
- Self Portrait With Bonito
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace & Hummingbird. Viva la...
- Magnolias, 1945
In Frida Kahlo's painting, in the center of the bunch of...
- Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
- 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
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),...
- July 6, 1907 (Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico)
- Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
- July 13, 1954 (Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico)
- The Two Fridas
Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico. 1943. Diego in My Thoughts ( Thinking of Diego) (Self-Portrait as a Tehuana) Diego en mi pensamiento ( Pensando en Diego) (Autorretrato como Tehuana) Oil on masonite, 76 x 61 cm [12] Collection of Jacques & Natasha Gelman, Mexico City, Mexico [12] 1943. Flower of Life.
YearEnglish TitleSpanish TitleMedium1924Tray with PoppiesCharola de amapolasOil on wood, [1] 40.5 cm diameter1925Still Life (Roses)Naturaleza muerta (Rosas)Oil on canvas, 41.2 x 30 cm1925Urban LandscapePaisaje urbanoOil on canvas, 34.29 x 40 cm1926Autorretrato con trajede terciopeloOil on canvas, 79 x 58 cm- Mexican
- 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.
Frida Kahlo. Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to ...
Oct 19, 2021 · Currently Housed. Museum of Modern Art. This double self-portrait is one of Frida Kahlo’s most famous paintings, and it represents the painter’s inner anguish after her separation from Rivera. The painter is seen on the side in contemporary European clothing, donning the outfit she wore at her wedding to Rivera.
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May 28, 2024 · Frida Kahlo (born July 6, 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico—died July 13, 1954, Coyoacán) was a Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Although she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist.
