FRIDA KAHLO

PAINTERS

Today I want to dedicate a few lines to my favorite artist, a young woman painter: Frida Kahlo, whose phrase that  characterizes her mostly, in my opinion is  "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality" and that explains better than many hazardous interpretations  what was the essence of her. 

A woman and an artist courageous, unconventional, passionate who wanted to live their lives beyond the limitations that fate had placed her.

Frida was a beautiful young woman who was able, in spite of the fate contrary, to turn her difficult life in a dream and that has been so Brava to do it to continue to live and grow in the following years so that everyone can get in... if they want to do it.

My favourite painter, therefore, was born on July 6, 1907, in the house of her parents known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán  a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City.

Her name was Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, but she is universally known as Frida Kahlo de Rivera.

Frida  claimed that she was born in 1910,  with the Mexican revolution, so that people would associate her with the revolution

Despite she suffering since the birth of spina bifida, a congenital malformation mistaken for polio, she participated in boxing, other sports and also participated in the violent armed struggles in the streets of Mexico City.

On September 17, 1925, Frida Kahlo was in a bus that collided with a trolley car. She suffered serious injuries as a result of the accident, including broken spinal column, broken collarbone, also an iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus, compromising her reproductive capacity.

This incident marks all his life because from that moment, due to the many operations suffered, she begins to spend much of his time in bed and she will abandon her studies in medicine...but it is  this accident to shape her birth as that wonderful artist that we know!

After the accident, in fact, parents gave her a canopy bed with a mirror on the ceiling and colors, so that she could be seen...so began the series of self-portraits.

She painted to occupy her time during her temporary immobilization. Her self-portraits were a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident.and then  she showed them to Diego Rivera, a famous painter, when the plaster was removed.

Kahlo once said, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best".

Frida Kahlo created at least 140 paintings, along with dozens of drawings and studies. Of her paintings, 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds.

Diego was impressed by the personality of Frida and took her under his wing by placing her in the political and cultural life in Mexico. 

Frida joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1928 and in 1929 in 1929 she married Diego.

It was a troubled love, with numerous treasons on both sides, until the two decided to live in two separate houses connected by a bridge, in order to have each their own space "as an artist."

In 1939 Diego betrayed her with her sister Cristina and they  divorced. A year later Diego came back to her and  in 1940 they  married again.

Frida Kahlo imbibed from his teacher a little naïve style, and painted small portraits inspired by folk art and pre-Columbian traditions because she wanted to assert herMexican  identity.

 Her greatest regret t was that she didn't have children. 

Her passionate love affair with Rivera is told in her  diary. 

She had many lovers, of both sexes, some of which by  very important  names: the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the poet André Breton, among a thousand others and other!