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Early Life Early Life Frida ● Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in ● In 1925, she was in a bus Kahlo Mexico City, Mexico. accident. Mexican Icon ● When she was six, she caught polio. This ● She had to stay in bed to gave her a limp for the rest of her life. recover for two years, and she Her father encouraged her to do sports was in pain for the rest of her life. to help her recover. ● While she was in bed ● She went to the National Preparatory recovering, she started painting. School. She was a good student and Depiction of Kahlo painting wanted to go to medical school. Frida Kahlo in 1919

Personality & Characteristics Life Story Life Story

● Kahlo was sociable and very interested in ● In 1929, she married Diego Rivera, who ● Kahlo became homesick, so they both politics. was famous for painting murals. moved back to Mexico City in 1933.

● She loved Mexican indigenous culture and ● They traveled a lot together around the ● They started to have troubles in their used it in her art and clothes. United States. marriage. Rivera had an affair with Kahlo’s sister, and he had also not wanted to However, she was very depressed and in a Her first art in an exhibition was a double ● ● move back to Mexico. lot of pain for most of her life. She used this portrait she painted of them both. emotion in her art but it didn’t make her ● They worked things out and stayed happy. married for a while, but things were never perfect and they both had affairs. Portrait of Frida Kahlo Kahlo and Diego Rivera Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Notable & Quotable Life Story Life Story

● In 1938, Kahlo had an exhibition of her ● Kahlo and Rivera got divorced in 1939. work in New York. ● That year, she created one of her most “At the end of the day, we ● She managed to sell half of her paintings. famous paintings, The Two Fridas.

● She also had an exhibition in Paris. The ● People started to become interested in can endure much more Louvre, one of the most famous galleries in her art in Mexico and in the United States. the world, bought one of her paintings, She was in many exhibitions. She started The Frame. ● than we think we can.” teaching at La Esmerelda, an art school in ● This was the first time they had art by a Mexico City. Her pain started to get a lot The Two Fridas Mexican artist. Kahlo’s self portrait worse but she kept teaching. The Frame Life Story Late Life Late Life

● Kahlo’s paintings often use the theme of ● Kahlo’s health problems got worse in her ● Kahlo was last seen in public on July 2, pain, both physical and emotional. last few years. 1954 in a protest against the invasion of Guatemala. ● She had troubles because of the pain ● She had surgery on her spine in 1950, from her accident, her difficult which caused other problems. ● She got sicker and weaker. relationship, her two miscarriages and her In 1953, she had her first exhibition all of On July 13, 1954 she was found dead in depression. ● ● her own. She had her bed brought to her bed. She was 47 years old. ● Her husband also had lots of affairs. After the opening to meet people from it, and one affair, she cut off her hair in protest. she arrived by ambulance. The Wounded Deer (1946) This is shown in Self Portrait with Cropped Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Self Portrait with Hummingbird Hair. Cropped Hair

Notable & Quotable Notable & Quotable Legacy

● When Kahlo was alive she did not make “I am not sick. I am broken. “I never paint dreams or much money from her art. ● However, she became very popular after But I am happy to be alive nightmares. I paint my she died. ● In 2006, her self-portrait Roots sold for $5.26 as long as I can paint.” own reality.” million. ● Kahlo is thought of as a symbol for both feminism and indigenous Mexican culture. Roots (1943)

What does this mean to you? What do you think she means? ● Today, her family home in Mexico City is open as the Frida Kahlo Museum. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexico She was... - known for the surrealism she used in her self-portraits - left disabled from polio as a child - and is a Mexican national hero for her contributions to art history #artist #selfportraits #surrealism #icon #Fridamania c Clark Creative Education FRIDA KAHLO “I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” c Clark Creative Education “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” - Frida Kahlo c Clark Creative Education Your Name BIO Sphere

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