Why was frida kahlo important?
Frida Kahlo is not only my favorite painter but also one of Mexico’s most famous artists and most importanty a strong feminist icon. She’s best known for her daring self-portraits depicting the suffering she experienced in her personal life. As a child Kahlo had polio; at the age of 18 she broke her right leg and pelvis in a horrific bus accident, leading to a lifetime of chronic pain. Partially immobile after the accident, Kahlo began painting in the late 1920s. She married famed muralist Diego Rivera in 1929 and together they travelled to the United States, staying in Detroit and New York City in the early 1930s. In the late 1930s Kahlo had exhibitions of her paintings in New York City and Paris and associated with some of the most famous painters in the world. Kahlo and Rivera were both known for their extramarital affairs (Kahlo supposedly was a lover of Leon Trotsky) and in 1940 they divorced for a short time before remarrying. During the ’40s Kahlo gained international recognitio
Revolutionary woman, paintings, Diego Rivera’s wife…Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. An active communist supporter, she was the wife of Mexican muralist and cubist painter Diego Rivera. She is widely known for her self-portraits often expressing her physical pain and suffering through symbolism. In 1933, after the traumatic incidence at the Rockefeller Center, Diego and Frida worked on a 19 piece movable mural, ‘Portrait of America’, at the New Workers’ School in New York, in an old and dirty building, and below they are taking a break together. The finished ‘Workers of the World Unite’ panel, 1933 This panel is also called the ‘Communist Unity Panel’, reflecting that the panel itself shows unity (hands) led by Lenin, and his interpretation of Marx’s and Engel’s theories, with Trotsky and Stalin as lieutenants. Lenin, backed by Trotsky, looks annoyed, probably because in the Rockefeller Center h
