Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is one of the most influential female artists and a feminist icon. Learn about her paintings, marriage to Diego Rivera, and legacy.
One Frida wears a costume from the Tehuana region of Mexico, representing the Frida that Diego loved. The other Frida wears a European dress as the woman who Diego betrayed and rejected.
Frida Kahlo's highly imaginative, brooding, introspective paintings are emblematic of her struggle with a crippling accident and tense marriage to Diego Rivera.
Frida Kahlo began to paint in 1925, while recovering from a near-fatal bus accident that devastated her body and marked the beginning of lifelong physical ordeals. Over the next three decades, she would produce a relatively small yet consistent and arresting body of work.
And then there’s Frida Kahlo —a disabled, bisexual, Mexican woman of indigenous descent and radical politics who was largely unknown during her lifetime, other than as the wife of the acclaimed muralist Diego Rivera.
A downloadable lesson plan about the life and work of Frida Kahlo that can be used by teachers in class or by students to work through at their own pace.
Xochimilco's Dolores Olmedo Museum, which houses Mexico’s largest collection of Frida Kahlo’s paintings, will reopen.
Frida, always her own favorite model, was not about preserving youthful beauty so much as identifying herself with Mexico, her beloved homeland. Frida's "acquired birth year" just so happens to...