The Life And Paintings Of Mexican Frida Kahlo

The life and paintings of Mexican Frida Kahlo

Introduction

Frida Kahlo was a very famous Mexican painter, and was born in Coyoacán Mexico on July 6, 1907. Frida Kahlo’s paintings represent aspects of the artist’s life accordingly talk about her personality. On the other hand, her paintings also talk about the exchanges that she had throughout her life in influences. Next we will deal with these two aspects of Frida’s life and work. 

Developing

First of all their identity and secondly exchanges with the world and others. With a Mexican and German father and a Mexican mother, Frida’s mestizo identity could be seen through her paintings, where she represented herself with Mexican but also European clothes, and with her iconic flower crown. Frida was a complete and unique artist because her life was original and complex: she suffered a polio attack when she was a girl, and suffered a bus accident when she was a teenager, during which she was about to die. After this accident, Frida had to remain in bed for a long time, but never stopped painting paintings that were precisely related to the pain and sadness she felt at that time. Among these paintings, you can see "the broken column" for example. With these traumatic events, you can say that Frida was a really brave and inspiring woman. Frida was also an honest artist with his audience, who did not hesitate to paint the truth, even when it could be dramatic, as with the picture "The broken column".

The art of Frida Kahlo was also marked by exchanges that influenced her way of seeing things. At that time, Mexico’s political situation angry with women: after the revolution, in which they participated, their role as housewives still does not change. Frida does not support this state of submission and begins to paint taboo issues such as sexuality, abortion, fertility or even physical and psychic sufferings, elements that are present in your life, and whose paintings arouse consciences. Among these works, we can name Frida and Cesarea (1931), my birth (1932), and even a few piqueticos (1935). As soon as his health allowed it, Frida enrolled in the Mexican Communist Party, thanks to which he met Leon Trotsky, also a communist, with whom he will have an adventure. This political commitment inspired the art of Frida, as in the "El Marxisme’s painting will give health to the sick". Frida was proud of her Mexican culture, but also admired the technological and industrial advances of the United States, which inspired her "self-portrait at the border between Mexico and the United States".

conclusion

In conclusion, Frida Kahlo was a complex and unique artist who painted works related to her personal influences and experiences, from her marriage to her political commitment, through her culture. I think this woman really managed to link her art with her life, which was really out of the ordinary. So we could ask ourselves if today’s artists have such a deep connection between their art and themselves.