Frida Kahlo

A detailed Summary of Frida Kahlo


Her life "I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down.....The other accident is Diego."

Frida Kahlo was born on July 7 1907, in the city of Mexico. However, she claimed that she was born in 1910, the year of the Mexican Revolution because she liked to think that her life began at the same time as modern Mexico. In fact, there are many anecdotes or lies like this in her life. At the age of six, doctors discovered that she had polio; her right leg was very much smaller than the left one. That didn't make a difference for her. When she entered high school many years later, she was known as the 'tomboy' of her class and soon of the school. It's at this school (National Preparatory School) that she met her husband, the great muralist Diego Rivera. At eighteen, she was involved in an important bus


As we can see, even if she died more than fifty years ago, her spirit didn't. She is still inspiring a lot of us and painters are trying to imitate her. She was a great woman who taught us to paint with the heart, not with the hands!

Frida's story is still well known today. There is presently a movie called Frida Kahlo at the Cinema 9 and the Maison du Cinema in Sherbrooke and there are permanent exhibits of her art in Mexico and United States. Unfortunately there are not enough museums in Quebec to have the chance to see an exhibit. We do have the movie though! Anyway, we had one last year from June 29 to September 9 on Canadian Art Collection, Montreal. There is also a new book which came out last week (November 13) about her life called "Beauty Is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo" by Carole Maso.



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