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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…
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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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Le Monde.fr: Frida Kahlo's paintings, the wealthy collector and her cunning friend spark a fight for Mexico's art
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Buenos Aires Secreta: El Malba celebra su aniversario con entrada gratis, cine al aire libre, música en vivo, desfile y una nueva muestra dedicada a Frida Kahlo
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“Fall in love with yourself, with life and then with whoever you want.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
“Painting has made my life full. Painting has replaced everything. I don't think there's anything better than work.”
“I am not sick. I am broken. But, I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
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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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Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Kahlo for 1938
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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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“Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life - Página 63, María Hesse - University of Texas Press, 2018, ISBN 1477317309, 9781477317303, 152 páginas”
San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to rename Phelan Avenue to Frida Kahlo Way
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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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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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“Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo - Página 12, Professor Carole Maso - Hol Art Books, 2011, ISBN 1936102226, 9781936102228”
“Quotes of Frida Kahlo, from: Song of herself; interviews by Olga Campos - ed. & translation Salomon Grimberg; Merrell London, New York, 2008”
And some on the centenary of the birthyear she attested to, 2010
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“Frida Kahlo: La metamorfosis de la imagen" - página 89, Frida Kahlo, Nadia Ugalde Gómez, Juan Coronel Rivera - Editorial RM, 2006 - 161 páginas”
By a pair of German genealogists who found he was instead a Lutheran
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“como citado in: Bravo - Edições 67-69, Instituto Takano de Projetos, D'Avila Comunicações Ltda., 2003”
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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“Imaginário - Edições 7-8 - Página 101, Núcleo de Estudo Interdisciplinar do Imaginário Ruy Coelho, Laboratório de Geografia Urbana e Planejamento, Universidade de São Paulo, 2001”
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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“The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas - Página 111, Frida Kahlo, Martha Zamora - Chronicle Books, 1995 - 159 páginas”
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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“Tek bir şey için ağlanmaz, birikmiştir...”
Kahlo was again hospitalized in April and May
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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.”
“Last words in her diary (July 1954)”
“chronologically arranged, after the date of the quotes by Frida Kahlo”
“Amurallar el propio sufrimiento es arriesgarte a que te devore desde el interior.”
“Dipingo autoritratti perché sono spesso sola, perché sono la persona che conosco meglio.”
“Para que preciso de pés quando tenho asas para voar?”
“Ben acının ve devrimin kadınıyım.”
“Mi pintura contiene el mensaje del dolor.”
“What do I need you for, feet, since I have wings to fly”
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
“Eles pensaram que eu era uma surrealista, mas eu não era. Eu nunca pintei sonhos. Eu pintei minha própria realidade.”
“Fico feliz de estar viva, desde que possa pintar.”
“Pinto minha própria realidade. Só sei que pinto porque preciso, e pinto o que passa pela minha cabeça sem nenhuma outra consideração.”
“Últimas palavras em seu diário (Julho 1954)”
“I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.”
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Shortly before her death in 1954 at the age of 47
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“Diary illustration, dated 1953, preceding a foot amputation in August of that year; reproduced on page 415 of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983)”
“Diary illustration, dated 4 November 1952”
“Quote in Imagen de Frida Kahlo by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (Mexico City) (10 June 1951)”
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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“Frida's quote On Diego Rivera, in 'Portrait of Diego' [Retrato de Diego] (22 January 1949), first published in Hoy (Mexico City) and posthumously (17 July 1955) in Novedades (Mexico City): "México en la Cultura”
And campaigned for peace, for example, by collecting signatures for the Stockholm Appeal
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“written line on a photograph she gave Diego. (1946)”
And when The Two Fridas was purchased by the Museo de Arte Moderno in 1947
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“In 1946 Frida painted 'The Little Deer', her self-portrait as a wounded stag; her health took an irreversible turn for the worse, then.”
“Quoted from: Antonio Rodríguez, "Una pintora extraordinaria," Así (17 March 1945)”
“Quote of Frida Kahlo, from her letter to Diego Rivera (1944), as cited in The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait; ed. Carlos Fuentes & C. Fuentes; Abrams, Harry N. Inc. 2005”
“Au dos de Fantaisie I, 1944”
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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Kahlo accepted a teaching position at the recently reformed, nationalistic Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"
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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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“Lettre à Jacqueline Lamba, vers 1939. Extrait de Le Journal de Frida Kahlo, Éditions du Chêne, 1995 (ISBN 2-85108-887-4)”
“Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0-06-091127-1 , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.”
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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“Quote of Kahlo, in her letter to Georgia O'Keeffe, 1 March 1933, from”
“carta a Leo Eloesser, junho de 1931”
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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“Quote of Frida Kahlo, in her letter to Alejandro Gómez Arias, 29 September 1926”
Began to work outside of school to help her family
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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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When he was painting a mural at her school
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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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“Frida Kahlo: 1907-2007 - Página 128, Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes, Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo - Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2007 - 399 páginas”
After epilepsy caused by an accident ended his university studies
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