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Some facts about Frida Kahlo’s biography
Some events in the life of Frida Kahlo
The works of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo’s Blue House
Some facts about Frida Kahlo’s biography
Some events in the life of Frida Kahlo
The works of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo’s Blue House
Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous and important Mexican painters and poets in the world. If you want to know her story, keep reading!
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Guillermo Kahlo, a German photographer, moved to Mexico, met the young Matilde and there they married. Frida Kahlo was born some time later in Coyacán (Mexico), on July 6, 1907. She had 3 sisters. She lived with her family in the famous Blue House.
When she was 6 years old she became very sick. When her health improved she started playing sports to continue recovering little by little. For example, she practiced boxing or soccer, sports that girls did not practice at that time.
Because he spent so much time visiting doctors and recovering, he was not able to make many friends, something that, when he grew up, he represented in his paintings.
When he was 15 years old he began studying at a very important school in Mexico, the National Preparatory School. Until very recently that school did not admit girls, so Frida was one of the first to study there. At that school she met and became friends with some classmates who, when they grew up, would also be very important characters.
At the age of 18, he suffered a serious traffic accident and spent many months without being able to move until he was cured. At that time He began to paint his first drawings and paintings.
In 1939 Frida Kahlo was already recognized. That same year she traveled to Paris, France, to organize an important exhibition of her paintings. There she meets the Spanish painter Picasso and manages to appear on the cover of Vogue, a very important French magazine.
His worldwide fame continued to grow, especially in the United States. There she participated in exhibitions in important museums in New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
In 1943 she became a teacher at an art school in Mexico. Her students were nicknamed “The Fridos”.
As you have already seen, Frida Kahlo was a very strong and independent woman, something very important because, at that time, women were not allowed to be like that.
The works of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo painted about things that happened in her life, what she thought and what she felt, and she is the protagonist of her work.
Frida painted, among other things, portraits of her family and friends, but above all she made several self-portraits in which she appeared surrounded by things that she liked, that made her sad, or scenes from her life.
His works include: Self-portrait with necklace either The two Fridas.
Frida Kahlo’s Blue House
The Blue House was the house in which Frida Kahlo was born and lived. Her parents built it and it appears in several paintings painted by Frida.
When Frida Kahlo died the house became a museum about his lifeand since then it has received visits from tourists from all over the world interested in the exciting story of this woman.
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