Frida Kahlo

Also known as Frida Kahlo Calderón, Frida Rivera-Kahlo, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon, Frida Kahlo Calderon, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon, Frida Khalo, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón

Mexican painter (1907–1954)

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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who lived from 1907 to 1954 and is known for her distinctive artistic work. Her paintings and legacy have made her an important figure in art history and Mexican culture.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1907
Died: 1954
Works: 46

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Film & TV

Acting · Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her surreal works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Her autobiographical portraits explored themes of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race. Apart from her paintings, she is also well-known for her political beliefs, being a member of the Mexican Communist Party.

Known for

Frida — Self (archive footage)2024
Frida Kahlo — Self (archive footage)2020
Chavela — Self (archive footage)2017
Detroit's Rivera — Self (Archive Footage)2017
Frida Maestra, el arte al encuentro de la vida — Self (archive footage)2005
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti — Self (archive footage)1983
Frida Kahlo — Herself (archive footage)1982
Frida Kahlo1971

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Country: Mexico
Active from: 1907
Active to: 1954

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 569
Total plays: 7,480

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.”
“I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.”
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
“I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.”
“Since Trotsky came to Mexico I have understood his error. I was never a Trotskyist.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream (The Bed) holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million.

Born to a German father and a mestiza mother (of Purépecha descent), Kahlo spent most of her childhood and adult life at La Casa Azul, her family home in Coyoacán – now publicly accessible as the Frida Kahlo Museum. Although she contracted polio in 1913, which left her disabled, Kahlo had been a promising student headed for medical school until being injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. During her recovery, she returned to her childhood interest in art with the idea of becoming an artist. Around the same time, she approached artist Diego Rivera, whom she had encountered several years prior when he was painting a mural in her school auditorium, to ask for his opinion whether she should pursue a career as a painter or find another means to support herself. According to Rivera, the two began their "courtship in earnest" shortly after this encounter.

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