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Frida Kahlo

Also Known As Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon
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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for vivid, often self-referential works that drew on her own physical suffering, her Mexican heritage, and folk art traditions. Many of her paintings, including a long series of self-portraits, are read as unflinching explorations of identity, pain and the body, and she remains one of the most widely recognized painters of the twentieth century.

Facts
Birth Year
1907 1
Death Year
1954 1
Nationality
Mexican 1
Birth Date
1907-07-06 2
Death Date
1954-07-13 2
Birthplace
Coyoacan, Mexico 2
Death Place
Mexico City, Mexico 2
Active From Year
1925 2
Dated from her recovery-period start in painting after a near-fatal 1925 bus accident to her death.
Active To Year
1954 2
Training
Largely self-taught; she began painting seriously during her recovery from a near-fatal bus accident in 1925, and studied briefly afterward with the commercial printmaker Fernando Fernandez. 2
Classification
Gender
Female 1
Connections

Associated With

Diego Rivera, Artists
Source Wikipedia

In Movement

Surrealism, Movements

Why this is disputed. Andre Breton and other Surrealists claimed Kahlo as one of their own after seeing her work in the 1930s, but Kahlo herself rejected the label, saying she painted her own reality rather than dreams. Her connection to Surrealism is carried here as a live art historical dispute, not a settled classification.

Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)

Practices

Painting, Art Forms
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)

Works Created

The Two Fridas, Works
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Mexico, nationality there.
Sources
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learning
  • chapter on twentieth century painting in the Americas, section on Kahlo
  • Gender reference
    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for vivid, often self-referential works that drew on her own physical suffering, her Mexican heritage, and folk art traditions.
2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Frida Kahlo article, infobox birth_date field
    6 July 1907
  • Frida Kahlo article, infobox death_date field
    13 July 1954
  • Frida Kahlo article, infobox birth_place field
    Coyoacan, Mexico
  • Frida Kahlo article, infobox death_place field
    Mexico City, Mexico
  • Frida Kahlo article, biography section
    began painting seriously
  • Frida Kahlo article, infobox other_names field
    Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon
  • Associated With: Diego Rivera, 1925-1930: Bus accident and marriage to Diego Rivera section
    Kahlo and Rivera were married in a civil ceremony at the town hall of Coyoacán on 21 August 1929.
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