Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. She was famous for her self-portraits. Below are some examples of her self-portraits.
Frida Kahlo Notes
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City.
At six years old Frida contracted polio which left her with a deformed right foot and the cruel nickname, 'Peg-Leg' Frida.
A streetcar accident in 1925 left Frida Kahlo disabled and changed her life. She started to paint during her recovery.
Kahlo met the great Mexican artist Diego Rivera in 1928 and married him in 1929. Their relationship was always turbulent.
Kahlo began to deny any European influences in her art. She started to wear traditional Mexican costumes and braided her hair with ribbons and flowers to identify with her indigenous Mexican culture.
After two unsuccessful pregnancies, Kahlo's paintings increasingly dealt with her feelings about loss, infertility, pain and alienation.
Most of her works are self portraits that explicitly deal with her own physical and psychological suffering.
During her lifetime, she did not enjoy the same level of recognition as her husband, Diego Rivera, but today her intensely autobiographical work is as critically acclaimed as that of her male peers.
In the summer of 1954, Frida Kahlo died from pneumonia in the house where she was born.
