“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
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Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million.
culture · Mexican painter (1907–1954) · painter · artist · also Frida Kahlo, Frida Rivera-Kahlo, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon, Frida Kahlo Calderon, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon
Born 6 July 1907 · Died 13 July 1954 · Q5588
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“Fall in love with yourself, with life and then with whoever you want.”
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“I am not sick. I am broken. But, I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
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“Painting has made my life full. Painting has replaced everything. I don't think there's anything better than work.”
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The Spectator: Frida Kahlo is a Tory icon
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Casa Cor: Frida Kahlo: 17 obras da artista mexicana que ganhou o mundo
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t.co: Ofrecerán cena temática inspirada en Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera en el Museo de Arte Sacro
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Blackpool Gazette: Incredible Frida Kahlo-inspired artwork on display at Knott End Library in stunning new exhibition
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ArchDaily: Galería de Frida Kahlo y el vínculo con su Arquitectura en México - 8
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OkDiario: La reflexión de Frida Kahlo, pintora mexicana, sobre la perseverancia: «El mundo es de quien nace para conq...
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Madrid Actual: Exposiciones en Madrid hoy: Egipto, Goya, Machu Picchu, Frida Kahlo y más experiencias únicas
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El Sol de México: ¿Quieres saber más sobre Frida Kahlo? Esta obra de Teatro en Cuernavaca explora su vida
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MutualArt: Frida Kahlo | Untitled (2002)
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Diario de Avisos: Eclipses en la cultura: de Kubrick a Virginia Woolf, pasando por Frida Kahlo, Pink Floyd y Rubens
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LatinUS: En opinión de Denise Dresser: México dice defender su soberanía, pero entregó a Frida Kahlo
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Mshale: Meryl Streep Y Anne Hathaway Visitan La Casa Azul De Frida Kahlo Barca Vs (zHKym9s5BO)
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Pasadena Now: Frida Kahlo’s Childhood Comes to a 99-Seat Screen East of Pasadena
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El Confidencial: Frida Kahlo: ocho libros para entender a la artista mexicana
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thenewworld.co.uk: Frida Kahlo and the culture war over women’s pain
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Secret Frankfurt: Experience Frida Kahlo up close in Frankfurt: Join us on a colorful journey through the world of Mexico’s most famous artistic icon
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Gaceta UNAM: La Virgen de Guadalupe, sor Juana y Frida Kahlo: tres mexicanas singulares
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Diario en Positivo: Eclipses y cultura: de Stephen King a Kubrick, Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo y más
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CASAG – OAB Goiás: Taza Y Plato Cerámico De Frida Kahlo De Sass & Belle, Diseño Pintado A Mano Con Cara Y Plato En Forma De Flor, Color Rosa
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infosantiago.com.ar: La polémica por la colección Gelman con valiosas obras de Frida Kahlo, David Siqueiros y Diego Rivera, suma un nuevo capítulo
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Radiofonica 100.7: Con entrada gratis, Laura Azcurra se pone en la piel de Frida Kahlo: «Fue una mujer que rompió todos los moldes
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Public attention spiked: 18,296 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 5,149, with 0 article edits.
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As part of a collaboration with Centre Pompidou, Swatch released a watch based on The Frame
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Full Fact rated the claim “A popular online quote about love, which ends with “because if I have to ask you, I don’t want it anymore”, was said by Frida Kahlo.” Full Fact could not find any evidence that Frida Kahlo said this..
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Snopes rated the claim “A real Detroit News article written in 1933 described Frida Kahlo as “Wife of the Master Mural Painter” who “Gleefully Dabbles in Art.”” True.
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With Maia Makhateli as Kahlo
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “A genuine photo of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.” False.
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A temporary mural of and called "Frida Kahlo" was painted by Rafael Blanco, for which he won a third-place prize at the Reno Mural Festival in Nevada
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Frida's "Fantasmones Siniestros" ("Sinister Ghosts") was burned to ashes, publicizing an Ethereum NFT
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Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Kahlo for 1938
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Mattel unveiled seventeen new Barbie dolls in celebration of International Women's Day, including one of Kahlo
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to rename Phelan Avenue to Frida Kahlo Way
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Author Monica Brown and illustrator John Parra published a children's book on Kahlo, Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos, which focuses primarily on the animals and pets in Kahlo's life and art
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Two Nudes in a Forest (1939) sold for $8 million
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Tamara Rojo originated Kahlo in the ballet
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Kahlo was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields"
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And some on the centenary of the birthyear she attested to, 2010
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By a pair of German genealogists who found he was instead a Lutheran
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And was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display in Chicago that celebrates LGBT history and people, in 2012
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And again in 2005, the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC coordinated an "Homage to Frida Kahlo" exhibition which showcased Kahlo-related artwork by artists from all over the world in Washington's Fraser Galler
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American jazz flautist and composer James Newton released an album titled Suite for Frida Kahlo
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Became the first Latin American artist to break the one-million-dollar threshold when Diego and I was auctioned by Sotheby's for $1,430,000
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Paul Leduc released a biopic titled Frida, naturaleza viva, starring Ofelia Medina as Kahlo
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One at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and another at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
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And 1977, respectively, and, in 1977, The Tree of Hope Stands Firm (1944) became the first Kahlo painting to be sold in an auction, netting $19,000 at Sotheby's
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And has become one of the most popular museums in Mexico City, with approximately 25,000 visitors monthly
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Died 1954-07-13.
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Kahlo was again hospitalized in April and May
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“Eles pensaram que eu era uma surrealista, mas eu não era. Eu nunca pintei sonhos. Eu pintei minha própria realidade.”
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“Pinto minha própria realidade. Só sei que pinto porque preciso, e pinto o que passa pela minha cabeça sem nenhuma outra consideração.”
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“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
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“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
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“I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.”
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“Fico feliz de estar viva, desde que possa pintar.”
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“Meu pai foi para mim um grande exemplo de ternura, de trabalho... e acima de tudo de compreensão de todos os meus problemas.”
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Shortly before her death in 1954 at the age of 47
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Kahlo spent most of the year in Hospital ABC in Mexico City, where she underwent a new bone graft surgery on her spine
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And campaigned for peace, for example, by collecting signatures for the Stockholm Appeal
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And when The Two Fridas was purchased by the Museo de Arte Moderno in 1947
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Kahlo accepted a teaching position at the recently reformed, nationalistic Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"
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Was included in the Mexican Art Today exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Women Artists at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery in New York
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To spread public knowledge of Mexican culture
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Her works were featured at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and, in the following year, she participated in two high-profile exhibitions in New York, the Twentieth-Century Portraits exhibition at the MoMA and
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During their time together in Mexico City, including a written inscription to Trotsky in the painting on a letter that Kahlo's figure holds
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And 1938, however, Kahlo's artistic career was extremely productive, following her divorce and then reconciliation with Rivera
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Joining the Fourth International and becoming a founding member of a solidarity committee to provide aid to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War
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Kahlo made no new paintings, and only two in the following year, due to health complications
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Kahlo was introduced to American artists such as Edward Weston, Ralph Stackpole, Timothy L
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Painted "The Bus", alluding to her accident: visible are the passengers sitting on benches as well as the man in the blue overalls who removed the piece of handrail that pierced her body and another passenger, holdin
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And spent the late 1920s and early 1930s travelling together in Mexico and the United States
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With her husband Diego Rivera, Kahlo was inspired by the city of Cuernavaca where they lived
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Kahlo asked him to judge whether her paintings showed enough talent for her to pursue a career as an artist
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Through which she once again met fellow Mexican artist Diego Rivera, according to Zelazko
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Began to work outside of school to help her family
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When he was painting a mural at her school
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Kahlo was accepted to the elite National Preparatory School, where she focused on natural sciences with the aim of becoming a physician
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Which left her disabled, Kahlo had been a promising student headed for medical school until being injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems
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Born 1907-07-06.
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After epilepsy caused by an accident ended his university studies
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