Frida Kahlo

(1907-1954)
(Mexican painter)
BIOGRAPHY
"Feet why do I love you if I
have wings to fly"
She was born in 1907 and died in 1954 in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Her full name was Magdalena Carmen Frida
Kahlo Calderón.

He studied at the German School and at the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. In 1925, he suffered a
tragic accident whose consequences he suffered until his death. During a long convalescence, he began to
paint his face by copying it from a mirror mounted on the canopy of his bed. First, he was realistic and
portrayed family and friends, he also liked to paint flowers. But later, because of the intensity of his feelings
and a broken body, he painted more and more of his own image combined with dreamlike, sometimes brutal
expressions. Some of his work has even been associated with surrealist tendencies due to its introspective
nature. In 1929, she married Diego Rivera, whom she divorced in 1940 to remarry him a year later. She was a
painting teacher at the School of Plastic Arts and a member of the Mexican Culture seminar. In 1938, he
mounted his first individual exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. Her works were included in the
"Mexique" Exhibition of 1939, which was presented at the Renou et Colle Gallery in Paris, as well as in other
group shows that were presented in Mexico throughout her life. He participated in the International
Exhibition of Surrealism organized in 1940 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Mexico City. Institutions as
important as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris house some
of his works.