Frida Kahlo

Samanta Catrilef
Camilo Vargas
Barbara Godoy
 Who is Frida Kahlo ?
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón known as Frida Kahlo,
was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán in Mexico City. He studied
at the German School and at the National Preparatory School in
Mexico City.
Frida Kahlo's art consisted mainly of paintings that expressed the
sufferings and torments she went through throughout her life. She
made numerous self-portraits in which she crudely expressed her
personal experiences and also distanced herself from artistic
stereotypes about the feminine, which influenced the recovery of her
image by feminist movements after her death.
 Las dos fridas
The two Fridas, the most famous work of
Frida Kahlo The two Fridas is one of the most
representative works of Frida Kahlo, the
painter made this work in 1939 when she
returned to Mexico after divorcing the
Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, with whom
she lived in the United States
 La mesa Herida
His large format work is "the wounded table" painting that disappeared in
1955 and whose whereabouts are still unknown.

This work is a self-portrait, where Frida Kahlo represents herself from

two identities: one of them wears a white lace dress that, according to
experts, symbolizes a European heritage and represents the Frida who was
influenced by the art of the old continent.

The other Frida is dressed in a tehuana, a typical costume originating from

Oaxaca. The Frida in the white dress holds a pair of scissors that cut an
artery that connects the two hearts of the Fridas. The one from Tehuana
holds a small portrait of Diego Rivera. Experts point out that the scissors
 the art style
the characteristics of his work facilitate dialogue
with other aesthetics such as surrealism,
primitivism and expressionism. Among its main
stylistic characteristics are: Use of dreamlike and
symbolic resources close to surrealism.