Artist: Frida Kahlo (Mexican 1907-1954)

Kahlo, Frida Biography

Influenced by Rivera's work, Frida Kahlo adopted his use of broad, simplified color areas and a deliberately naive style in her oil paintings. Like Rivera, she wanted her oil paintings to affirm her Mexican identity, and she frequently used subject matter from Mexican archaeology and folk art.

Frida Kahlo primarily depicted her personal experience. She frequently focused on the painful aspects of her life, using graphic imagery to convey her meaning. The turbulence of her marriage is shown in the weeping and physically injured self-portraits she painted when she felt rejected by Rivera. She portrayed her physical disintegration, the result of the bus accident, in such works as The Broken Column (1944, Collection of Dolores Olmedo Foundation, Mexico City), in which she wears a metal brace and her body is open to reveal a broken column in place of her spine.

Kahlo had three exhibitions during her lifetime. The exhibitions in New York City in 1938 and in Paris in 1939 were organized through her contact with the French surrealist poet and essayist Andre Breton. In 1953 she had her first exhibition in Mexico, at an art gallery in Mexico City.

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