Frida Kahlo Thesis

Title: Frida Kahlo a Female Icon

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the Life of an iconic artist that was Frida Kahlo

Thesis Statement: I want to share the Life of Frida Kahlo that led to her recognition as an Iconic artist even today.

Introduction

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.

Thesis Statement: I want to share the Life of Frida Kahlo that led to her recognition as an Iconic artist even today.
Preview: Frida Kahlo experienced a lot of adversity throughout her entire life. Many of the events she experienced reflected all of her art work. In order to understand who Frida Kahlo was, it is important to understand first, about her accidents, second, her relationship with Diego, Lastly, her Art work, All the elements mentioned will help to understand why Frida Kahlo is known to be an Iconic figure.
(Transition: I would like to start off by talking about Frida Kahlo’s origins)
I. Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Cayoacan Mexico City and died on 1954, her full name is actually Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon
A. Frida was raised in her family’s home where she was born
-she had three sisters, two were older and one was younger
-Her father Wilhem was a photographer and migrated to Mexico where he met Frida’s mom Matilde
B. At a young age she was starting to show signs of hardships that were yet to come in her life by contracting Polio
(Transition: Now knowing a little bit about Frida’s origins it is time to understand how Frida came to be known as an Iconic Mexican artist and the hardships she went through)
II. One of the many things that contributed to Frida’s dysfunctional life was her many accidents and injuries that she experienced
A. 1913, At age 6, Frida was struck with Polio which made it difficult for her to use her right leg and it was left damaged (Griffiths , 2014)
-began wearing long skirts to hide it
B. 1925, When Kahlo was 18, she was injured in a near-fatal street accident in which a bus collided with a tram (Griffiths, 2014)
-gets broken pelvic bone, spinal column, so much so that doctors were starting to doubt if she was going to be able to survive
-was the accident that sparked her need to paint
C.

1926, Spends several months in bed to recover from the injuries she learns that she won’t be able to have children of her own

D. 1934, gets an appendectomy, an abortion and an operation on her right foot to get the ends of her toes removed

E. 1939, she gets a kidney infection and is hospitalized

(Transition: Now that we have established Frida’s accidents and injuries it is time to learn about her relationship with Diego Rivera)

III. Diego Rivera’s and Frida’s relationship was extremely dysfunctional

A. Diego was 20 years older than Frida when he met her

B. Frida pursued Diego and took him from his wife at the time (Hamilton, 2011)

C. Rivera encouraged Frida to start painting more often when they began a relationship (Gross, 2013)

D. Both Frida and Diego had affairs and a lot of the damage that Diego inflicted on Frida emotionally went straight to her paintings

E. They both welcomed open relationships

(Transition: Keeping these points in mind we know that all the hardships Frida experienced helped make great paintings that are still around today.)

IV. Frida’s paintings had powerful meanings behind them, Her paintings helped her to surpass

the success of her

husband
A. Frida made a total of 143 paintings throughout her lifetime , 55 which were self portraits
-on all self portraits she demonstrated all the hardships she experienced
B. Used powerful strong colors that helped to represent what Mexican culture really was