Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954

Pain and Passion

Author: Andrea Kettenmann
Secondary Author: Frida Kahlo
ISBN: 9783822859834

Suffering and the female experience The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably interwoven than in almost any other artist s case. Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was eighteen, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column and fractured pelvis. It was in her sick bed that she first started to paint. Then, aged twenty-one, she married the world-famous Mexican mural artist Diego Rivera. She was to suffer the effects of the accident her whole life long, and was particularly pained by her inability to have children. Kahlo s arresting pictures, most of them small format self-portraits, express the

Publisher: Taschen
Publish Date: 2000

Subjects: Art / Individual Artists / General

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