Frida Kahlo was a feminism icon in art.
The mexican painter portraid in your frames
the tragedies in your life and your loves. With a life marked for your passions,
pain, sufferings and patience, Frida took to the world the vibrant colors and the
energy of the mexican people in your clothes, adornments and paintings.
The painter Frida Kahlo become a pop icon in the ultimates decades. Your serious
countenance and colorful printed tshirts, bags and keychains around the world. What
many people doesn´t know is that she had a brief life marked by a traggic accident
and diseases, and made his art a portrait of his pain.
Magdalena Carmem Frida Kahlo y Calderón was born in July 6, 1907, Coyoacan, Mexico.
She had polio when he has 6 years old, that left her with a slight limp, a chronic
ailment she would endure throughout her life. That is not the only tragedy in your
life. In 1925, at 18 years old Kahlo was involved in terrible bus accident, where
she fractured the spine, collarbone, pelvis and various ribs. Because of this she
had to undergo more than 30 medical operations in her lifetime and she needed use a
orthopedic vest until die in July 13, 1954, Mexico.
During her slow recovering, she started to dedicate herself to painting.
The chronicals pains caused because the accident and the polio influenced all the
artist´s works, who also had to deal with others health issues throughout your
life. " I never paint my dreams or nightmares. I paint my own and real life."
After the recovering time, Frida decides to show your work to the plastic artist
Diego Rivera, a muralist artist who was very famous and that she saw the first time
when she was taking a preparatory course to study medicine and there she confided
to a friend that one day she would marry with him. After a short dating, they
married, in 1929, in spite of 20 years age difference.
Their relationship it was troubled, full of fights and betrayals on both sides.
Frida was bissexual, something unacceptable at the time and had female lovers too.
After a season on Detroit, USA, because husband works, Frida, through the entries
in your diary and the frames that she painted at that period, she who was openly
nationalist, missing Mexico and can not adapted. In this period she endured three
miscarriages
due to problems in the uterus caused by the bus accident.
Back to Mexico, the marriage ends because the painter discovers that Rivera had an
affair with her younger sister, Cristina. This is probably the time of the worst
depression period in the artist's life, consequently she cut your hair and backs to
wear men´s costumes.
Nonetheless, like at the time of the accident, was in disaster that she reconnected
with your art and start to sell your work in order to acquire your financial
independence.
In 1940, Frida and Rivera married again and they stayed that way for a few more
years, as troubled as the early years. Despite of fights, it was him who stayed
with her during one of the most critical periodo in her life, when she needed to
amputate your leg. Despite of sad situation, this moment eternalized one of your
most
famous sentence and that represents all Frida´s life: "feet, what do I want them
for, if I have wings to fly!"
In 1953, she had your first and unique in life, solo exhibition, in which almost
did not appear because of medical prohibition, but with her profile as a determined
and resilient woman, she got her to be taken with stretcher and this way she could
participate in a moment she had always wanted.
Frida Kahlo brings to art something which until then was not addressed for
painters: intimate female issues. Abortion, childbirth and femicide was one of the
themes presents in your work. Your own fragility was painted in your frames. She
was not afraid to show the consequences from the accident she suffered. The
exposure of your physical vulnerability in counterbalance with your strength as a
woman, of the persistence she had and in the fight against the pain, a difficult
relationship with husband and the disapointed to not become a mother are reasons
that took women from all over the world to identify with her and carry your name in
feminist movements,remembering that she never called herself as such, but did not
impeded her from becoming a reference in this fight.
Frida drew attention for her peculiar look. Always kept her unibrow thick and
striking. Abused of mexican influency with colors and prints floral and ethinics in
your clothes. This peculiar mood makes she
