FRIDA KAHLO

Mexican painter born in 1907 who made self-portraives mainly, in which used a fantasy and a style inspired by the popular art of her country. Daughter of the photographer Jew-German Guillermo Kahlo, Frida was born in Coyoacán, the south of City of Mexico. With 16 years old, when she was student in the Preparatory National School of this city, she was seriously wounded in a truck accident and began to paint during her recovery.

Three years later she took to Diego Rivera some to him of her first pictures so that she saw them and this one animated her to continue painting. In 1929 they married. Influenced by the work of her husband, she adopted the use of shaped ample and simple zones of color in a deliberately ingenuous style. Like Rivera, wanted that her work was an affirmation of their Mexican identity and for that reason it frequently resorted to techniques and extracted subjects of the folklore and the popular art of her country.

More ahead, the inclusion of fantastic, clearly introspectives elements, the free use of the pictorial space and the juxtaposition of incongruous objects heightened the impact of her work, that arrived to be related to the surrealist movement. Her pictures represent her personal experience fundamentally: the painful aspects of hei life, that passed postroad in a bed to a great extent, are narrated through one graphical imaginery. She exposed in three occasions. Organized the exhibitions of New York of 1938 and Paris of 1939 through her contacts with the poet and french surrealist essayer André Bretón. In April of 1953 she exposed for the first time in the gallery of Contemporary Art of City of Mexico. A year later died victim of a health already very broken.