Frida Kahloautobiography

por T. A. C.

Frida Kahloautobiography"I am not sick. I am broken.

But I am happy as long as I can paint."

Frida KahloautobiographyDifficult life

Born 1907 Mexico City

Age 6 Polio & Limp

Tomboy

1922 Preparatoria

Meets Diego Rivera

teases, practical jokes, jealousy of wife

Frida Kahloautobiography1925 bus accident

collide with a tramcar

rod pierces her mid-section

leg & pelvis injured

never have children

paints first self-portrait

Frida Kahloautobiography"I paint self-portraits because I am the person I know best. I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other considerations."

Frida Kahloautobiography'I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.'

1928 Diego & Frida meet again

Diego divorced

much in common

politics – communist militants

Marry 1929

Frida Kahloautobiography55 of her 143 paintings are self-portraits

Husband - Diego Rivera, said:

"Frida is the only example in the history of art of an artist who tore open her chest and heart to reveal the biological truth of her feelings. The only woman who has expressed in her work an art of the feelings, functions, and creative power of woman."

Frida KahloautobiographyTravel to United States

Arm piece to Diego

Frida has miscarriage

Paints Miscarriage in Detroit

Style – Mexican Folk Art – Retablos

Diego loves U.S.

Frida despises it

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Diego said of Frida: “Frida began work on a series of masterpieces which had no precedent in the history of art - paintings which exalted the feminine quality of truth, reality, cruelty and suffering. Never before had a woman put such agonized poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.”

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Frida KahloReturn to Mexico

Diego with Cristina

Diego a notorious cheater

Frida cheats

men and women

Diego tolerates lesbianism

violent jealous of men

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Frida KahloAndré Breton - Surrealist

arranges showNew York 1938

success – 12 paintings sold

1939 show in Paris

praise from Picasso

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Frida KahloautobiographySurrealism & Frida

violent dislike for what she called 'this bunch of

coocoo lunatic surrealists.'

Vehement denials: 'They thought I was a Surrealist,' she said, 'but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.'

Frida Kahloautobiography1940 Frida & Diego divorce

unknown reasons

1940 in U.S. Frida & Diego remarry for her health

1944 health deteriorates

surgeries (for Diego?)

1950 1 year in a hospital

More famous still (1st in U.S)

Frida Kahloautobiography1954 1st show in Mexico

too sick to attend?

sends bed

arrived by ambulance

carried in on stretcher

1954 loses a leg

blow to self-esteem

appearance!!!

Frida Kahloautobiography1954 dies in her sleep

suicide?

Her last diary entry read: 'I hope the end is joyful - and I hope never to come back - Frida.'"

physical and emotional pain

suffering on the canvas; a sort of therapy to survive

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El Fin