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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:: 37123
The monkey and i
mk118
1937
Oil on canvas
40x28cm
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Painting ID:: 37124
The Portrait of monkey and i
mk118
1938
Oil on canvas
40.6x30.5cm
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Painting ID:: 37125
The Artist
mk118
1938
Oil on canvas
71x52cm
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Painting ID:: 37126
Fruit
mk118
1938
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 37127
The still life having the fruit
mk118
1938
Oil on canvas
25.4x35.6cm
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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: | Peter Dewint | Eugeen Van Mieghem | Giulio Romano | Philip Leslie Hale | Bundy Horace |
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