Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

On July 6, 1907 in Coyacan a special artist come into the world. Her name is Frida Kahlo and perhaps best known for her self-portraits. Her mother was Mexican and her father German. That is whay she is realy  

influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, which is apparent in her use of bright colors and dramatic symbolism. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as national and idigenous.
She had contracted polio in her early years at the edge of 6 which left her right leg thinner than the left. participatet in boxing and other sports. When she was only 18 years old sche had a very bad accident while riding a bus when a trolley car crashed it. As a consequenz she suffered serious injuries and had about 35 operations and had to spend 3 months in hospital to recover in a full body. The injuries also prevented Kahlo from having a child because of the medical complications and permanent damage.
After this accident she began a career as a painter. She painted to occupy her time during her temporary immobilization. She made a lot of self-portraits which became a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. Kahlo once said, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."
Moreover she had a volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She admired his work asked him for some advice about pursuing art as a career. But the marriage was often troubled and both had irritable temperaments and numerous extramarital affairs. Frida has affairs with men as well as with women. Riovera knwe of and tolerated her relationships with women but relationships with men made him jealous. Some other reasons began to rise and so they get divorced in 1939 but remarried in 1940. But their second marrrigae was as troubled as the first. 

Frida Kahlo died on July 13, 1954 a few days before her death she wrote in her diary: "I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return — Frida". The official cause of death was given as a pulmonary embolism, although some suspected that she died from an overdose of painkiller that may or may not have been accidental. She had been very ill throughout the previous year and her right leg had been amputated at the knee. She made about 143 paintings. 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds.