Monday, December 24, 2018

Artist of the fay, December 24: Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter

Frida Kahlo de Rivera ( 1907 – 1954), was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits.
Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home, which is known as "La Casa Azul," the Blue House. Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.

Here is her timeline:
1907, June 6: Frida Kahlo is born as third daughter of Matilde Calderon de Kahlo, Mexican, and Wihelm Kahlo, German, in Coyoacan, A suburb of Mexico City

1913, Contacted polio which leaves her with a slightly crooked right foot. She attends the Colegio Aleman elementary school in Mexico City

1922, Enter college, the Escuela Nacional Preparatory with a view of studying medicine at university. She admires Diego Rivera at work at her school on fresco “The Creation”

1925, Traffic accident where she is seriously injured in a collision between a tram and a bus traveling home from school.  She spend a month in the Red Cross Hospital and starts painting during her convalescence.

1928, She became a member of the Mexican Communist Party and meets Diego Rivera again. They fall in love. In his fresco “Ballad of the revolution” he depicts her wearing a red blouse and a star on her breast.

1929, She married Diego Rivera

1930, First miscarriage. Her first pregnancy is terminated at the start of the year. Rivera is offered commission in the USA, and in November the couple move to San Francisco.

1931. She meet Dr Leo Eloesser, He is to become her most trusted medical advisor for the rest of her life. Bothe the pain and deformity in her right leg increase.

1932. The couple move to Detroit, where Rivera has been awarded another commission. After three and a half months, her second pregnancy ends July 4 with a miscarriage at the Henry Ford Hospital

1933. Move to NYC  where Rivera paints a mural at Rockefeller Center. They return to Mexico at the end of the year and move into a new house in San Angel

1935,
She separated from Diego and takes her own apartment. She meet the American sculptor Isamu Noguchi and had an affair with him.

1936: Active in Solidarity Commitee. She had a third operation on her foot.

1937:
She welcomed Leon Trotsky

1938. Her first Solo exhibition held in October/November in Julien Levy’s Gallery in NYC with great success. She begins an affair with the photographer Nickolas Muray.

1939: Travel to Paris where she exhibit her works in the Renou & Colle gallery. She divorced Diego at the end of the year.

1940:  Remarried to Diego

1941: Her father passed away.

1942:  She joined Seminario de Cultura Mexicana

1944:  She goes to NYC for an operation on her spine

1948: 
She rejoins the Mexican Communist Party

1949:  She is hospitalized again and undergoes a total of seven operation on her spine and spends 9 months in hospital

1950: 
Poor health condition and confined to a wheelchair. From now on she has to take painkillers.

1953:  Her first solo exhibition in Mexico. She attends the opening lying in bed. Her  right leg is amputated below the knee

June 13, 1954:  She passed away.

1958:
The Museo Frida Kahlo opened

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Ms Frida Kahlo

At work


Her studio

1926 Sun and Life

1926, Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress

1927, Alicia Galant

1928, Portrait of Cristina, My Sister

1929 The Bus

1929, Portrait of Virginia (Little Girl)

1929, Time Flies

1929, Two Women

1931, Frida and Diego Rivera

1931, Portrait of Luther Burbank

1932, Along the Boarder Line Between Mexico and the United States

1932, Henry Ford Hospital

1932, My Birth

1932, Self-Portrait Dreaming

1933, My Dress Hangs There

1933, self-portrait with necklace

1935, A Few Small Nips

1936, My Grandparents, My Parents and Me

1937, Fulang Chang and I

1937, Memory, the Heart

1937, My Nurse and I

1937, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky

1937, The deceased dimas

1938, Four Inhabitants of Mexico

1938, Girl with Death Mask I

1938, Self-portrait with Monkey

1938, What I Saw in the Water

1939, The Two Fridas

1939, Two Nudes in the Forest

1940, Self Portrait with Monkey

1940, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair

1940, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

1940, Suicide of Dorothy Hale

1940, The Wounded Table

1941, Me and My Parrots

1943, Flower of Life

1943, How Beautiful Life is When it Gives Us Its Riches

1943, Portrait of Natasha Gelman

Kahlo1943, Roots

1943, Self Portrait as a Tehuana

1943, Self Portrait with Monkeys

1943, Thinking about death

1944, Portrait of Dona Rosita Morillo

1944, The Broken Column

1945, Moses

1945, Without Hope

1946, The Wounded Deer

1946, Tree of Hope, Keep Firm

1947, Self-Portrait with Loose Hair

1948, Self Portrait

1949, Diego and I

1949, The Love-Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Me, Diego and Mr Xolotl

1951, Self-portrait with Portrait of Dr Farill

1951, Still Life with Parrot and Fruit

1954, Marxism will give health to the sick

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