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Frida Kahlo
1907-54
Mexican painter, b. Coyoacen. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits incorporating a personal symbolism complete with graphic anatomical references. She was also influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, aspects of which she portrayed in bright colors, with a mixture of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married. Although Kahlo's work is sometimes classified as surrealist and she did exhibit several times with European surrealists, she herself disputed the label. Her preoccupation with female themes and the figurative candor with which she expressed them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th cent.
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Painting ID:: 35564
Kahlo painted herself in my Nurse and i in the arms of an Indian wetnurse
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Painting ID:: 35565
Frida reworked a retablo she had found by repainting the victims face to resemble her own and writing the micacle performed on the scroll beneath the
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Painting ID:: 35566
After Fride left the Red Cross Hospital,she painted a cityscape of a small,stark rooftop view.On one of the buildings she painted a red cross
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Painting ID:: 35567
In her earliest documented self-portrait,drawn for a schoolmate in 1922
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Painting ID:: 35568
This is Frida-s earliest of two attempts to paint al fresco
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Frida Kahlo
1907-54
Mexican painter, b. Coyoacen. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits incorporating a personal symbolism complete with graphic anatomical references. She was also influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, aspects of which she portrayed in bright colors, with a mixture of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married. Although Kahlo's work is sometimes classified as surrealist and she did exhibit several times with European surrealists, she herself disputed the label. Her preoccupation with female themes and the figurative candor with which she expressed them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th cent.
. Related Artists to Frida Kahlo: | Jan van Goyen | Maurice Brazil Prendergast | Dieric Bouts | thomas binks | Percy tarrant |
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