Transcript Frida kahlo - Clark University

FRIDA KAHLO
A Mexican Artist
ABOUT FRIDA
“I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I
paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.” –Frida Kahlo
•Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon
•July 6, 1907
•Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
•Famous artist
CHILDHOOD
•Casa Azul
•Mexican mother
•German, immigrant father
•One of four daughters
•Polio at age 6
•National Preparatory School
• Diego Rivera
A LIFE ALTERING EVENT
“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was
Diego. Diego was by far the worst” –Frida Kahlo
•September 17, 1925
•Bus accident
•Impaled by a handrail, fractured spine and pelvis
•Shattered bones
1928-1929
•Marriage to Diego Rivera
•Troubled relationship
•Moved frequently
•Diego supportive of Frida’s art
•California, NY, Detroit
•1933 Mexico
EL ARTE: 200 PINTURAS
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best”
– Frida Kahlo
•Powerful female for her time
•Reknowned painter
•Autoretratos
•Fantasy
•Folklore
•Narrative
SURREALISMO?
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own
reality” – Frida Kahlo
Surrealismo: 20th century avant-gard art movement that featured dreamlike
fantasies. The style is typically realistic, but irrational.
•Haunting, sensual, original
•Dolor, la salud, y las relaciones
•2000: 1929 $5.000.000 painting
“I leave you my portrait so that you
will have my presence all the days
and nights that I am away from
you” – Frida Kahlo
EL FIN
“My painting carries with it the message of pain” – Frida Kahlo
•Decline in health by 1950
•Gangrene in right foot
•1953 1st solo exhibition in Mexico
•Rumors of depression and suicide attempts
•In and out of hospitals
•Died July 13th, 1954 at Casa Azul
•Pulmonary embolism