Frida Kahlo she is not only one of the most important Mexican painters, but a woman who has become symbol of women and their emancipation and strength.
Rebellious spirit, inside a fragile body, he had a short life marked by illness and pain: he died at the age of 47, leaving no stone unturned.
At the heart of his works is the passion for art, for his Mexico, for the political struggle and for the love - unconditional, even if tormented - for the artist Diego Rivera.
She deserves the credit for having inspired with her infinite willpower, which allowed her to transform suffering, defeat, misfortune and physical pain into great masterpieces.
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Who is Frida Kahlo de Rivera
First name Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon
Nationality Mexican
Nata on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City
died on July 13, 1954 (age 47) in Coyoacán, his hometown, where his home, the Casa Azzurra, simple and beautiful, with colored walls, light and sun, was donated to Mexico by Diego Rivera and today is a destination for many art and painter lovers.
The father, Wilhelm Kahlo, is a painter of Hungarian origin. Emigrated to Mexico, he changed his name to Guillermo. Widowed by his first marriage, he remarried in 1898 with what will be Frida's mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzales, daughter of a Mexican and an Indian. They have four children.
Frida is the liveliest and most rebellious of the four. She is independent and passionate, intolerant of every rule and convention. It is also the most frail in health.
She was born affected by spina bifida, which parents mistake for polio. For this he does not receive adequate care.
Because he did so many self-portraits
Frida Kahlo suffered a serious accident while traveling on a bus when she was 18 which resulted in a multiple fracture of her spine, several vertebrae and her pelvis.
The consequences of the accident have it bedridden for many months.
Parents give her paints and brushes to help her pass the long days. Frida begins to devote herself to painting.
And so parents always decide to install a mirror on the ceiling of his room, so that he can retreat into the long lonely afternoons.
This explains the artist's numerous self-portraits. She herself will say: "I paint self-portraits because I'm often alone, because I'm the person I know best».
The first self-portrait it's for Alejandro, her teenage love. Many others will follow.
The 32 surgeries undergone in the course of her life they have never restored her complete mobility, and throughout her life she will have to live with excruciating pains throughout her body.
The tormented love with Diego Rivera
At 21, Frida joined the Mexican Communist Party, becoming a staunch activist.
In that year - it was 1928 - he knows Diego Rivera, Mexico's most famous revolutionary painter. She shows him her works and he is very impressed by her modern style, so much so that he decides to take her under his wing and introduce her to the Mexican political and cultural scene.
In 1929 the two got married.
Diego is 21 years older than her and three marriages concluded behind.
Ha the fame of the womanizer and his own infidelity will be the source of constant quarrels.
To contain their souls, and each have their own artistic space, they always lived in separate houses, joined together by a small bridge.
Frida herself will say: «I have suffered two serious accidents in my life… the first was when a tram overwhelmed me and the second was Diego Rivera».
Frida suffered greatly from her husband's betrayals which he even had a relationship with Frida's younger sister, Christine.
The two divorced in 1939 because of this grave act of infidelity. But it doesn't take long and they reconnect for remarry in 1940 in San Francisco.
She had a lot of lovers
Marrying Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo she knew he would betray her. IS she did the same, with both men and women.
Among the many lovers of Frida Kahlo, the Russian revolutionary Lev Trotsky and the poet André Breton.
She is a very good friend and perhaps also a lover of Tina Modotti, a communist militant and photographer in Mexico in the XNUMXs.
Despite the ardent amorous passions he never managed to have children, due to the compromised physique.
Becoming pregnant with her first child, Frida did everything she could to carry on with the pregnancy.
But the doctors forced her to have an abortion to prevent both her and the baby from losing their lives.
The most beautiful phrases of Frida Kahlo
"Why do I call him My Diego? It never was and never will be mine. Diego belongs to himself ».
"Feet, why do I want them if I have wings to fly?"
«Is it legitimate to invent new verbs? I want to give you one: "I heaven you", so that my wings can stretch out beyond measure, to love you without borders "
"I would like to give you everything you've never had, and even then you wouldn't know how wonderful it is to love you."
"The love? I do not know. If it includes everything, even contradictions and self-overcoming, aberrations and the unspeakable, then yes, go for love. Otherwise no"
"Death can be cruel, unjust, treacherous ... But only life can be obscene, unworthy, humiliating"
"What would I do without the absurd?"
"I paint the flowers to keep them from dying"
"Scars are openings through which one being enters the solitude of the other"
Frida Kahlo's most important works of art
The Frame (self portrait) (1938)
Two Nudes in the Woods (1939)
The two Fridas (1939)
The Dream (The Bed) (1940)
The Broken Column (1944)
Moses (or Solar Core) (1945)
Wounded Deer (1946)
Self-portrait (1948)
The loving embrace of the universe, the earth (Mexico), me, Diego and Mr. Xólot (1949)
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