HAPPY BIRTHDAY Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907 - 13 July 1954)!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907 - 13 July 1954)!
After a car accident, Kahlo abandoned her study of medicine to begin a painting career. She painted to occupy her time during her temporary immobilization. Her self-portraits were a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. Kahlo once said, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."
Interesting information about her taken from: http://news.terra.com
1. Frida's art was influenced by the indigenous Mexican culture, European Realism, Surrealism and Symbolism.
2. A vast majority of her work are actually self-portraits.
3. Kahlo was married to Diego Rivera. She considered him the greatest artist that ever lived.
4. Frida Kahlo was born in La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán, Mexico, the same house that now serves as a museum.
5. Kahlo was in a terrible accident that broke her spinal column, collarbone, ribs, pelvis, several fractures on her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. She was forced to stay in bed for months, it was then that her true passion for realism painting was born. It was her painting that helped her overcome depression.
6. Kahlo and her husband Rivera were known communists who housed Leon Trotsky after he fled Stalin's regine.
7. Her ashes are at La Casa Azul.
8. Diego Rivera accepted that Frida's death was 'the most tragic day of my life,' but that his love for her had been the 'most beautiful part of my life.'
9. Some have said that she died of a self-induced overdose.
10. Frida Kahlo's 'Roots' holds the auction recordfor a Latin American piece of art. The 1943 work sold for US$ 5.6 million in 2006.
