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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:: 37158
Coconut
mk118
1951
Oil on canvas
25.4x34.6cm
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Painting ID:: 37159
Crying Coconut
mk118
1951
Oil on canvas
23.2x50.5cm
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Painting ID:: 37160
Between Cloth
mk118
1937
Oil on canvas
87x70cm
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Painting ID:: 37161
Somethin in the water
mk118
1938
Oil on canvas
91x70.5cm
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Painting ID:: 37162
Still life
mk118
1952
Oil on canvas
25.8x44cm
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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: | eisabeth Vige-Lebrun | Jensen Johan | Casper Netscher | Wilhelm Steinhausen | Niklaus Deutsch |
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