Frida

KAHLO
HISTORY
This story born in Mexico in 1907, and his life
can be characterized as marked by tragedy and
suffering.
At the age of six he suffers an attack of
poliomyelitis that affects his right leg and five
years later, he has a bus accident, which is why
he interrupts his medical studies.
Two years later, she manages to lead a
somewhat normal life and begins to frequent
the intellectual circles of the capital, where she
meets Diego Rivera, whom she marries in 1929.
She was a woman who was beginning to be
known in the artistic world, and in 1939 her
work was exhibited in Paris and painters like
Picasso recognized the value of her paintings.
Frida endures enormous physical pain all her
life that makes her paint and work in bed, she
cannot have children and she had several
abortions.
They finally die 1954 a year after his leg was cut
off.

Karina Gabriela Rosales Reyes LEGACY

She was an icon of political

MAIN PAINTINGS activism and the feminist
Self-portrait with monkeys, 1938. struggle in an entirely
Self-portrait with a necklace of patriarchal and macho
thorns, 1940. Mexican society.
Diego in my thoughts, 1943.
The

broken column, 1944.
The wounded deer, 1946. The Mexican artist was a member of the
My family, 1949. Communist Party, rising as one of the great
left-wing activists and fighting to combat
inequality, injustice and gender violence.

FIRS MEXICAN
PAINTER
YOU KNEW WHAT?
I like when he put on an exhibition
on Mexican art at the Louvre She changed her name
Museum in France. The frame made from Frieda to Frida at the
Frida the first person from Latin age of 28.
America in that place. I was bisexual.

She is the most expensive
artist in Latin America.

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