Frida
Kahlo
México (1907 - 1954)
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who was born on July 6, 1907 and died
on July 13, 1954. Frida claimed to be born in 1910, the year of the
outbreak of the Mexican revolution, because she wanted her life to have
begun at the same time as the new Mexico.This anecdote provides a telling
illustration of a unique personality, characterized since her childhood
by a deep sense of independence and rebellion against mediocre social
and moral habits, moved by passion and sensuality, proud of her "mexicanidad"
and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization: all
mixed with a very individual sense of humour.
Her life
was marked by physical suffering, starting with the polio she contracted
at the age of five and worsened by a life-marking event that occurred
in 1925. A bus accident caused severe injuries to her body (she
was impaled from the stomach to the pelvis by a pole). The medicine
of the day tortured her body with surgical operations (32 over the course
of her life), corsets of different kinds and mechanical "stretching"
systems.
Lots of her works were painted lying in bed. Because of these physical
conditions Frida was never able to have any children, which was a cause
of great sadness for her.
She had
one great love, Diego Rivera (she married him twice and dedicated
a passionate diary to him) but also a lot of lovers, men and women,
such as Leon Trotsky and André Breton's wife.
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