Frida
Kahlo
Frida
Kahlo de Rivera born Magdalena
Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, was a Mexican painter who is
best known for her self-portraits.
Kahlo's
life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue
House. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of
national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its
uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.
Mexican culture and
Amerindian cultural tradition are important in her work, which has
been sometimes characterized as naïve art or folk art. Her work has
also been described as surrealist, and in 1938 André Breton,
principal initiator of the surrealist movement, described Kahlo's art
as a "ribbon around a bomb". Frida rejected the
"surrealist" label; she believed that her work reflected
more of her reality than her dreams.
Kahlo had a volatile
marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered
lifelong health problems, many caused by a traffic accident she
survived as a teenager. Recovering from her injuries isolated her
from other people, and this isolation influenced her works, many of
which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlo suggested,
"I paint myself
because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know
best." She also stated, "I was born a bitch. I was born a
painter.
Fuente: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
