Baftijari, Ymijan. “10 Frida Kahlo Quotes about Diego Rivera That Will Make You Believe in Love Again.” Vivala, CMI Marketing, 2017, www.vivala.com/love/frida-kahlo-quotes-about-diego/6966/they-were-bewitched-by-their-deep-admiration-for-each-other/6.
This article is a list of quotes from Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera about her love for him. Before each quote, the article even explains the meaning of the quote and gives needed context to the reader in order to fully comprehend the quote. From this source, I took two different quotes that I eventually used as transitions To-Do List → Art Review and Interview → Series of Tweets. After continuing my research, this book revealed to me that Kahlo was inviting towards the few fans she had, which
Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist. ABDO Publishing, 2010.
This book was a biography of Frida Kahlo that walked me through her life from birth to death. I used part of this book to help develop one of my genres, the to-do list. A section of this book discussed how Kahlo was in desperate need of something to distract herself from the trauma while in the hospital. She discovered painting and it helped relieve her of her constant and long-lasting pain.
“Biografía De Frida Kahlo.” Frida Kahlo Museum, museofridakahlo.org.mx/assets/files/page_files/document/39/Biografia.pdf.
This is a short biography and overview of Kahlo’s life taken from her official museum. While being very similar to another biography used, this source gave specific information about how Kahlo admired Rivera’s art before they became married. Used in the series of tweets, this source also revealed that meeting Rivera at a young age may have also prompted Kahlo to begin practicing art herself.
Carpenter, Elizabeth, et al. Frida Kahlo. Walker Art Center,
From this site, I used two quotes in my transitions, Letter to a Friend → To-Do List and Art Review → Interview. From this site, I also looked at many other quotes and even considered using them at some point but, in the end, I decided on just the two.
“Red Paintbrush Transparent Background.” Free PNG Images, WordPress, 6 May 2015, freepngimages.com/red-paintbrush-transparent-background-2/.
This is the website from which I received an image of a red paintbrush with a transparent background. I used this image before and after all my transitions to single to the reader that a transition was coming. Since Kahlo was an artist and my project revolves around that, I thought a paintbrush would be the perfect symbol to use.
Turner, Robyn Montana. Frida Kahlo: Portraits of Women Artists for Children. Little Brown, 1993.
This book is a biography that mainly focuses on Kahlo’s artwork. This source helped me develop the art review as it provided evidence that Rivera influenced Kahlo’s work. She became a better artist after meeting him which could be attributed to the fact that she admired him and his artwork. This also helped me minorly develop my series of tweets as it provided information that Kahlo loved her husband and she knew that he valued his art above all
Ester Hernandez is a Chicana artist, best known for her works of Chicana women. Ester’s goal is to recreate women’s lives to produce positive images of women’s lifestyle and to create icons. Her piece, Frida y Yo, contains the iconic painter Frida Kahlo. Frida, after being in multiple accidents causing long-term pain and suffering, began painting, mostly self-portraits, to portray her reality and glorify the pain. Similar to how Hernandez's goals are a juxtaposition to Frida’s artwork, the art piece Frida y Yo creates a juxtaposition between life and suffering and death and fortune.
Attention Material: There is ongoing speculation that Frida Kahlo would have never came to be as well known if it wasn’t for the marriage to another Famous Mexican painter under the name of Diego Rivera. Although both had different styles of painting, Frida Kahlo was being rediscovered by many particular women because a lot of herself inflicting paintings connected to a big audience of feminists. After living under the shadow of her husband she was becoming even more famous than Diego Rivera.
Frida Kahlo nació el 6 de Julio 1907 en la ciudad de México. Ella les dijo a muchas personas que nació el 7 de Julio 1910 porque quiso parecer más joven a los otros. Aunque sus padres fueron judíos, Frida nació en México. Frida fue una artista surrealista y sus obras vió de sus emociones de la tristexa y la cólera de su vida. Ella le encantó decir los chistes, reír, y sonreír. Frida Kahlo llevó las ropas de la cultura tradicional de México porque pensó que las ropas fueran una forma del arte. Todo el mundo admiró mucho a Frida, a causa de sus obras y su actitud.
More specifically, in the first stanza the wife is the speaker and she explains hanging a wedding portrait of Frida and Diego Rivera. The wife had stated, “I wonder how two people could consistently hurt each other,/ but still feel love so deeply as their bones turned into dust?”(stanza 1). Which shows some foreshadowing into the wife’s relationship with her husband; and how they may not get along all the time, but they still care deeply for each other. According to New York Times Frida and Diego had a relationship that would always amaze and astonish everyone. Due to them getting married in 1929, then divorced in 1940, which they ended up marrying again that
As an artist? She was respected for her work, but the fact that she didn’t seem like or acted like an artist, & using canvases that is what she ‘lacked’ in respect, & for a while no-one really seemed to care, but then she met Diego Rivera.
Frida Kahlo was an amazing woman whose many tragedies influenced her to put her stories into her paintings. She was born in July 6th 1907 to a Mexican Roman Catholic mother who was of Indian and Spanish decent and a German photographer father. Frida had three sisters, Mitilde and Adriana, who were older and Christina who was younger. She learned about Mexican history, art and architecture by looking at her father’s photography. When Frida was six she got polio and it was a long time before she would heal completely. After surviving polio, Frida’s right leg became weak and thin, so her father encouraged her to play sports to help her.
Frida Kahlo is known for the most influential Latin American female artist. She is also known as a rebellious feminist. Kahlo was inspired to paint after her near-death bus incident when she was 17. After this horrendous incident that scarred her for life, she went under 35 different operations. These operations caused her extreme pain and she was no longer able to have kids. Kahlo’s art includes self portraits of her emotions, pain, and representations of her life. Frida Kahlo was an original individual, not only in her artwork but also in her
Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo are an important aspect of the Hispanic World and well-known names in Latino art. Rivera and Kahlo knew many famous painters such as Duchamp, Siqueiros, Orozco and Picasso. Picasso became a great friend of the family. Kahlo has influenced many places in Mexico. There are many land marks not only in Mexico but around the world. The Frida Kahlo Museum is located in Coyoacan Mexico in her Casa Azul home (blue house), this is the same place Kahlo was born, grew up, lived with her husband Rivera and died (Gale, 1996). The museum holds collections and embraces the personal effects of both artists shining light on the way of life for affluent Mexican writers and artist during the first half of the century. The Dolores Olmedo Museum at Hacienda La Noria is another museum-house from the 16th century monastery, includes many of Kahlo’s famous paintings such as “The Broken Column,” “Luther Burbank,” and holds a large amount of Rivera’s works of art (Gale, 1996). Rivera’s murals of his wife Frida, himself, and various members of their family and friends can be found at the Secretariat of Public Education (where he met his wife), the Mexico City’s National Palace, the Museo de la Alameda, and the Palace of Fine Arts (Gale, 1996).
Born in 1910, Frida was a woman that was not about preserving young beauty. She loved to acquaint herself with Mexico, where she was born. Being a great painter, she loved to paint pictures of herself. A quote by her is as follows “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best”. In other words, she can paint and feel free, because she knows herself well and can paint the
At the age of six, Kahlo was diagnosed with polio, and at the age of 18, she was in a fatal bus crash. Despite health problems, Kahlo continued to paint; her paintings are said to depict her pain. During this time, Kahlo’s art thrived. When Kahlo went to live in Paris in 1939, she befriended other well known artists such as Picasso and Duchamp. Her most famous work “The Two Fridas” was created while she was there. In 1941, the Mexican government asked her to paint five important women, but she was unable to finish it due to family problems. Kahlo’s health became worse in the 1950s, however, she still continued to paint. In 1953, she was granted her first solo-exhibition that took place in Mexico. On July 13, 1954, Kahlo passed away from unknown causes. She still is known today as one of the most popular female artists in
Art is a very important part of humanity’s history, and it can be found anywhere from the walls of caves to the halls of museums. The artists that created these works of art were influenced by a multitude of factors including personal issues, politics, and other art movements. Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh, two wildly popular artists, have left behind artwork, that to this day, influences and fascinates people around the world. Their painting styles and personal lives are vastly different, but both artists managed to capture the emotions that they were feeling and used them to create artwork.
Frida was a broken column. She stood tall and proud, resilient and powerful, but also weak in one aspect. When she was a young woman, she rode the bus every day to school. By some sick, twisted fate, she got into an accident on the bus and broke several bones, including her pelvic bone, compromising her ability to have children. Although she was bedridden for months, she didn’t let herself sulk. By spending her time reading and doodling on her cast, she remained active. She took up painting because it was the only thing she could do lying in bed. Even with the knowledge that she would most likely never be able to have a child, a tragedy for any woman of her time, she fought on. The fact that she continued with her hobbies and eventually made a name for herself, despite her circumstances, shows incredible character. I admire her because she was strong in the face of adversity, she did everything she could to help her family, and she made imperative contributions to feminism.
Frida Kahlo was, and still is, often referred to as one of the most influential women in the art scene. However, to me she is more than just a painter. She is someone I can relate to and who greatly inspires me. The way she was unapologetic when it came to her heritage and how she had refused to allow personal tragedy to keep her down is what really makes me look up to her. Those reasons are what really drew me in and made me want to learn more about her. Since first learning of her in eighth grade and about her experiences, I have started to try hard to embody these specific aspects throughout my everyday life.
The self portraits of the surreal artist Frida Kahlo are highly expressive and filled with various symbols of pain and struggle. In the two pieces, The Broken Column and Self Portrait Along the Boarder Line Between Mexico and the United States by Frida Kahlo, Kahlo expresses her struggles between her body and machinery and her struggles internally and externally. This consistent theme throughout her pieces are due to the pain of her bus accident when she was eighteen, her multiple surgeries, traveling with her husband, and physical tragedies throughout her life. Throughout her pieces, Frida expresses her dislike for machinery by juxtaposing her pain and her body with machines. This emphasizes how machinery only increases her pain and according to Marta Zarzycka, how “Kahlo’s art presents one of the most intriguing problems of pain: its spatial relation to the body. In the context of human perception, the body has both an outside surface and an inside surface.”
The turmoil began early for this young woman. At age six, she was stricken with polio, which left her walking with a limp. From the beginning Kahlo did not intend to become an artist. She was attending school at The Preparatoria (Preparatory) to become a famous doctor (Frida Kahlo n.d.). It was on September 17, 1925 that the most pivotal moment in her life occurred. Kahlo was on her way home from school when she became involved in a tragic bus accident. She was discovered by her boyfriend at the time, Alejandro Gomez Avais. Her slender body had been pierced by a hand rail (Lucie-Smith 1999). Many, including doctors, thought she wouldn’t make it. She proved wrong after surviving various surgeries. For a year she was put in bed to recuperate. The accident left her with a broken back, broken pelvis, and a crushed leg. During her recuperation she taught herself she taught herself to paint by studying Italian Renaissance (Frida Kahlo n.d.). She began painting portraits of family members and still life from her bed.