Republican Bolivarian of Venezuela.

Ministry of People's Power for Education.

U.E.P. Colegio Simón Bolívar and Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Area: English.
Year: 4th "A".

INTERVIEW WITH FRIDA KAHLO.

Students: Karla Rodrigues.

Gabriela Delgado Lusinchi.
 Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón Known as Frida Kahlo, she was a
Mexican painter. His work revolves thematically around his biography and his own
suffering. She was the author of 150 works, mainly self-portraits, in which she
projected her difficulties in surviving. She is also considered a pop icon of Mexican
culture.

Born in Coyoacán, Mexico City, on July 6, 1907, Frida was the third daughter
of photographer Guillermo Kahlo, a German immigrant who became a Mexican
citizen, and Matilde Calderón, a Mexican. Her life was marked by the misfortune of
suffering a serious bus accident in her youth that kept her bedridden for long
periods, undergoing up to 32 surgeries, with art being her refuge.

Frida's work and that of her husband, the painter Diego Rivera, influenced each
other. Both shared a taste for Mexican popular art with indigenous roots, inspiring
other Mexican painters of the post-revolutionary period.

Kahlo died in Coyoacán on July 13, 1954. Her remains were laid to rest at the
Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City and her coffin was covered with the flag of the
Mexican Communist Party, a fact that the national press heavily criticized. Her
body was cremated in the Dolores Civil Crematorium and her ashes are preserved
in the Casa Azul in Coyoacán, the place where she was also born.
 QUESTIONS
Can you tell us about that September 16, 1925?

A: It is truly a difficult topic for me; it is an event that ended one part of my life, so
that another could be born. I suffered a serious accident when the bus i was
traveling in was hit by a tram, crushed against a wall and completely destroyed. My
spine was fractured in three places, also suffering fractures in two ribs, in the
clavicle and three in the pelvic bone. The medicine tormented her with multiple
surgical operations (at least 32 throughout her life)

What does it feel like to be an icon of feminism?

A: I think that women of my time were quite quiet and submissive, adored Diego
very much, but why do we have to be an accessory? Why can't we be self-
sufficient? I have always liked to see myself as self-sufficient and strong.

Many define your relationship with Diego as "that of an elephant and a dove"
what do you say?

A: Diego and i complete each other, perhaps our first marriage had some
problems, like all marriages, but i think that people give too much opinion.

Frida, something that makes us curious, what do your paintings reflect?

A: Art is my refuge from a life full of unexpected events, many call me surreal, I
only interpret my life, i paint myself because I am the one I know best, these works
are not my dream, it is my life itself.

It has been a pleasure to have you here, any message for the people who see
you?

A: The world belongs to those who are born to conquer it and not to those who
dream that they can conquer it. Stop wasting time where there is no love, get away
from there, fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whoever you want,
that's why I never call Diego "my Diego" he never was nor will be mine, it's his own.