FRIDA KAHLO

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter and a feminist of German, Indian and Spanish descent.

 

In the nutshell, her art consists of vibrant colors, of Mexican, European surrealism and realism elements and imagery.

She mostly painted self-portraits perfectly expressing her misery through the canvas.  She had been suffering from persistent pain all her life. As a child she had polio (therefore, as an adult she was wearing long skirts to cover the disproportion between her right and left leg) and then, at age 18, she was injured in the bus accident. Her pelvis was pierced by a metal bar. She undergone around 30 surgeries. Long rehabilitation and recovery process caused her interest in arts. 

Frida’s image is associated with flowered hairstyles; long, colorful traditional Tehuana skirts and a unibrow.

 

She had a complicated relationship with Diego Rivera, with whom she was married to and pregnant but unfortunately, she miscarried twice. They were like chalk and cheese; Frida was young and attractive whereas Diego was 20 years older and overweight. They both had affairs. Diego even betrayed his wife with her own sister.

 

After almost 70 years she’s still an admired painter and an icon, both in the world of art and in pop culture.