Note: This is a repost from #613, December 2018. And if you're in the neighborhood, stop by for the Cinco de Mayo from the art point of view! The concert with Miranda Madison is free.
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 Kahloat work
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The studio
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If you're in the area Sunday, Stop by!
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Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress, circa 1926
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| Alicia Galant, circa 1927 |
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| Portrait of Cristina, My Sister, circa 1928 |
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| Time Flies, circa 1929 |
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| Frida and Diego Rivera, circa 1931 |
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| Portrait of Luther Burbank, circa 1931 |
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| Along the Boarder Line Between Mexico and the United States , circa 1932 |
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| Self-Portrait Dreaming, circa 1932 |
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| Self-portrait with necklace, circa 1933 |
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| Fulang Chang and I, circa 1937 |
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| Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, circa 1937 |
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| Girl with Death Mask, circa 1938 |
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| Self-portrait with Monkey, circa 1938 |
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| The Two Fridas, circa 1939 |
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| Self Portrait with Monkey, circa 1940 |
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| Self-Portrait Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser, circa 1940 |
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| Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, circa 1940 |
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| Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, circa 1940 |
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| Me and My Parrots, circa 1941 |
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| How Beautiful Life is When it Gives Us Its Riches, circa 1943 |
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| Portrait of Natasha Gelman, circa 1943 |
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| Thinking about death, circa 1943 |
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| Portrait of Dona Rosita Morillo, circa 1944 |
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| The Wounded Deer, circa 1946 |
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| Self-Portrait with Loose Hair, circa 1947 |
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| Self Portrait, circa 1948 |
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The Love-Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico),
Me, Diego and Mr Xolotl, circa 1949 |
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| Self-portrait with Portrait of Dr Farill, circa 1951 |
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| Still Life with Parrot and Fruit, circa 1951 |
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Marxism will give health to the sick, circa 1954
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