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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:: 35644
The Little Deer
mk104
1946
Oil on masonite
9x12in
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Painting ID:: 35645
Self-Portrait with Loose Hair
mk104
1947
Oil on masonite
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Painting ID:: 35646
Diego and I
mk104
1949
Oil on masonite
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Painting ID:: 35647
The Love Embrace of the Universe,The Earth,Diego,me and senor xolotl
mk104
1949
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 35648
Portrait of Don Guillermo Kaahlo
mk104
1951
Oil on masonite
23.8x18.3in
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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: | Amandus Adamson | George Scharf | James Fairman | Maggiotto, Domenico | Arthur Dove |
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