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Mexican painter · 1907–1954 · Art & Literature

Turned a shattered spine, a stormy marriage and Mexican folk imagery into fifty-five self-portraits that refuse to look away.

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“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

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Who Frida Kahlo was

At eighteen Kahlo was riding a bus in Mexico City when it was struck by a streetcar; an iron handrail went through her pelvis. She spent months in a body cast and started painting with a mirror above the bed. She married the muralist Diego Rivera in 1929 — they divorced, remarried, and hurt each other steadily. She joined the Communist Party, sheltered Trotsky, and painted her miscarriages, her surgeries and her split identity with a flatness borrowed from retablo folk painting. The Louvre bought The Frame in 1939, the first work by a twentieth-century Mexican artist it acquired. Her only solo show in Mexico came in 1953; she attended in a four-poster bed.

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Why paint yourself so many times?

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How did the accident change what you wanted to make?

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What was living and working alongside Diego actually like?

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What do the retablo traditions give your paintings?

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How did you get through the last years of surgeries?

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