Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. She belonged to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity. Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions.
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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Kahlo belonged to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity. She is known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions and by feminists for what is seen as its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. She had her first solo exhibition in Mexico in 1953, shortly before her death in 1954 at the age of 47. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She was inspired by European artists in particular Renaissance masters such as Sandro Botticelli and Neoclassical avant-garde movements such as Sachlichkeit and Moreernes. She also drew inspiration from the city of Cuernavlos in Mexico, which she visited during her marriage to Diego Rivera. She died of cancer in 1954, aged 47, at her home in Coyoacán, Mexico, where she had lived for most of her life. Her husband was also a painter, and the couple had a son, Juan Carlos, who was born in 1929 and died in 1953. She left behind a husband and three children.
She worked as an art teacher in Mexico and the U.S. until she died in 1954. Her works are displayed at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Mexico, in Mexico City, and at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, New York and Paris, among other places. She has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She painted mostly small self-Portraits which mixed elements from pre-Columbian and Catholic beliefs, and her paintings raised the interest of Surrealist artist André Breton, who arranged for a solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in NYC in 1938. She later stated that the accident made her desire to begin painting things just as she saw them with her own eyes and nothing more and nothing less. Painting became a way for Kahlo to explore questions of identity and existence, as she explained, \”I am often alone and I am the subject for the subject I know best. I paint myself because I am myself because I am the subject I know best. I paint myself as I am the subject I m of my life and I experience and I am the person I become in this world. “I paint my self as a person.” Kahlo’s mother provided her with a specially-made easel, which enabled her to paint in bed, and she had a mirror placed above the easel to see herself.
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