Frida Kahlo
by Marisa Marlowe
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Biography:
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. She is considered to be one one of Mexico's greatest artists. She says her birth date is actually 1910. Frida claimed this because she wanted the year of her birth to coincide with the year of the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Her reason for this was because she wanted her life to begin with the birth of modern Mexico. Frida began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident. The accident left her bedridden, where she began to paint her traidmark subject, herself.
Emotion is the base for most of Frida's paintings. She would paint out her feelings whenever she could. She painted in both realism and surrealism, her surrealism paintings always leaning on the strange side.
Frida died on July 13, 1954, soon after turning 47. The cause of death was determined to be a pulmonary embolism, though some suspected that she died from an overdose that may or may not have been accidental. Her ashes are now in an urn kept in her old house, which is now being treated as a museum holding her old work.
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. She is considered to be one one of Mexico's greatest artists. She says her birth date is actually 1910. Frida claimed this because she wanted the year of her birth to coincide with the year of the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Her reason for this was because she wanted her life to begin with the birth of modern Mexico. Frida began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident. The accident left her bedridden, where she began to paint her traidmark subject, herself.
Emotion is the base for most of Frida's paintings. She would paint out her feelings whenever she could. She painted in both realism and surrealism, her surrealism paintings always leaning on the strange side.
Frida died on July 13, 1954, soon after turning 47. The cause of death was determined to be a pulmonary embolism, though some suspected that she died from an overdose that may or may not have been accidental. Her ashes are now in an urn kept in her old house, which is now being treated as a museum holding her old work.