Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.
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Background
- Born in
- Coyoacán
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"One Sunday, Diego came to the house to see my paintings and critiqued all of them in a very clear manner, and he told me all the possibilities he saw in them. Then I painted two or three things, which…"
"His supposed mythomania is in direct relation to his tremendous imagination. That is to say, he is as much of a liar as the poets or as the children who have not yet been turned into idiots by school …"
"Frida Kahlo: Notas Sobre una Vida / Notes on a Life; photos of Frida in her daily life, and some of her written letters; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution"
"We moved from the house on Reforma to Coyoacán, and that had an enormous influence on me. How we painted the house and the Mexican furniture, all that influenced my painting a lot. While still on Refo…"
"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint."
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Timeline
1907
Born
Birth1954
Died
Death
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