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
Active From YearDated from her recovery-period start in painting after a near-fatal 1925 bus accident to her death. Active To Year TrainingLargely 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 Connections
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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
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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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
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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.
2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationFrida Kahlo article, infobox birth_date field
6 July 1907
Frida Kahlo article, infobox death_date field
13 July 1954
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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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