Frida Kahlo Biography

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Frida Kahlo was born in a suburb of Mexico city, Coyoacán, on July 6, 1907 but claimed July 7, 1910 as her year of birth since 1910 was the beginning of the Mexican Revolution therefore, wanted her life to begin with the birth of modern Mexico. She was best known for her self-portraits and her work had been described as “surrealist”. Her works were also remembered for its pain and passion, and its vibrant, intense colors. Her work had been celebrated in Mexico as a symbol of national and native tradition.
Frida was one of four daughters born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a Spanish mother ancestry. Frida was closer to her father than her often-depressed mother. She was struck with polio at age six leaving her right leg thinner than the left. She then disguised it later in life by wearing long skirts. Additionally, Frida did not originally plan to become an artist. On September 17, 1925, she was nearly fatally injured in a bus that collided with a trolley car. It was a gray day and a light rain had fallen. Frida and her boyfriend Alex Gómez Arias caught a bus that would take them home to Coyoacán. As a result of the accident, she suffered serious injuries including a broken back back and pelvis, broken collarbone and two ribs, eleven fractures in her right leg, a dislocated shoulder, and a crushed right foot. Moreover, an iron handrail of the bus pierced her abdomen and her uterus resulting in the compromising of her reproductive capacity. She had surgeries throughout her life to treat her injuries of the accident.
The accident left Frida in a great deal of pain as she spent three months recovering in a full body cast. The pain was very intense that it often left her restrained to a hospital for months at a time. Although after ...

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...d the sudden blast of heat from the open incinerator that caused her body to bolt upright. The fire blazed around her head like a halo and her lips seemed to break into a seductive smile just as the doors shut. In addition, her last diary entry read "I hope the end is joyful - and I hope never to return - Frida.".

Later, in Rivera’s diary, he wrote that the day Frida died was the most tragic day of his life and that he had realized that the most wonderful part of his life had been his love for her. Frida’s ashes were placed in a pre-Columbian urn, which is now on display in her former home, La Casa Azul or “The Blue House” in Coyoacán. Her house is now a museum that contains most of her artworks and various remainders from her personal life. Additionally, it is more than half a century after her death and her paintings make more money than any other female artist.

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