Metaphorical Self Portrait

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Metaphorical Self Portrait

• Looking at the Work of Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo

• "In 1953, when Frida Kahlo had her first solo
  exhibition in Mexico (the only one held in her
  native country during her lifetime), a local
  critic wrote 'It is impossible to separate the
  life and work of this extraordinary person. Her
  paintings are her biography.'

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Frida Kahlo

• Kahlo was born in Mexico City in 1907.
• In 1925, Kahlo suffered the serious accident
  which was to set the pattern for much of the rest
  of her life. She was travelling in a bus which
  collided with a tramcar, and suffered serious
  injuries to her right leg and pelvis. The
  accident made it impossible for her to have
  children, though it was to be many years before
  she accepted this. It also meant that she faced a
  life-long battle against pain.

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Frida Kahlo

• In 1926, during her convalescence, she painted
  her first self-portrait, the beginning of a long
  series in which she charted the events of her
  life and her emotional reactions to them.
• Many of her compositions and ideas stem from her
  relationship with her husband and the Mexican
  Muralists.

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