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How Did Frida Kahlo Influence Picasso And Surrealism

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Frida Kahlo was born July 6th 1907 in Coyoacan Mexican, where she also died July 17th 1954. She was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, and grew up with two older sisters, Matilde and Adriana, and a younger sister, Cristina. Her father Wilhelm was a German photographer, who immigrated to Mexico, and got married to Frida Kahlo’s Mexican mother Matilde. When she was 6 years old, she got polio. She limped when she walked during her recovery, because the disease had damaged her right foot and leg. In order to recover better, her father encouraged her to play soccer, wrestle, and go swimming, which was very unusual for girls at the time.
As one of the few girls, Frida Kahlo attended National Preparatory School in 1922. She got known for …show more content…

Even though she wasn’t an official member of Surrealism Most of her artwork was very influenced by her personal issues in her childhood and from her accident, and her artwork was also always autobiographical. She also used her own mixed ethnic background in her artwork, and she let her German-Mexican background affect her work.
The attached painting is called The Two Fridas and is her most famous work. She painted it in 1939 during her divorce with her husband. On the right, she painted herself wearing a European costume, and one the right she is wearing a Mexican Costume, representing her Mexican background. She also holds a locket with a picture of Rivera. The picture also show her bleeding heart. The painting was purchased by the Natinal Institute of Fine Art in Mexico City in 1947 for about $1000.
She divorced Diego Rivera, but they got remarried in 1940 and they both were in involved with other people. Her health issues became a problem in 1950, after she was diagnosed with gangrene in her foot, and part of her right leg was amputated in 1953. She became deeply depressed and attempted suicide. She died later that year in her

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