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The documentary "Portrait of an Artist” by Frida Kahlo is easily seen as an old film due to the simple editing techniques. Despite this, the film still accurately portrays the artist's life in the famous "Blue House" outside of Mexico City. She shared this home with her husband Diego Rivera, who was a famous muralist and painter. Frida Kahlo's full name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón de Rivera. She was born in Coyoacán, Mexico on July 6, 1907. She ended up changed her birth year to 1910 in order to associate herself more with being a product of the Mexican Revolution. Her father was a Hungarian Jew who immigrated from Germany to Mexico. He married a Mexican woman of both Native and Spanish descent. As a child Frida would go with her father on his photography assignments and to his studio. All the while she …show more content…

This is where she met her future husband. Frida married Diego Rivera in 1929 when she was 22 years old and he was 42. They continued to be residents of Mexico City, because Diego was contracted to do murals in the U.S., yet they lived in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York while he worked on those commissions. They had a confusing kind of open relationship which could have been the cause of their divorce in 1939. Yet surprisingly they remarried the following year. Kahlo's life was riddled with tragedy. When she was 7, Frida was diagnosed with polio which left her with a smaller and thinner leg. At 18 years old Kahlo was in a bus accident. Her lower body was impaled on a metal rod causing her pelvis to break and her spine in three places. She spent most of her life hospitalized and in bed. During her life she had three miscarriages because of her injuries. Later in her life she was still haunted by this incident and suffered a gangrenous leg, which was amputated. After this her condition and attitude got worse which resulted in her death in

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