Frida Kahlo

By jamal kabongo

Frida Kahlo, whose name is also Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Caldern,

was born in a town called Coyocon, Mexico City in Mexico. She started to
after a tragic accident happened she was in a bus accident. Frida was raised

in her home with her parents and 2 older sister,Matilde and Adriana, and

one younger sister Cristina. Her dad Wilhelm (also called Guillermo)

immigrated from germany and came to mexico and married frida mom.

When she was young she would often get sick and have problems. Kahlo

went to school with very few women there the National Preparatory School.

In the following years she went through a horrible bus accident which caused

her to fall in love with drawing. As she was drawing she became politically

active and joined groups like the mexican communist party. In 1929 she

married diego rivera an artist they traveled around the us making their

painting known to other and get acknowledged. In the following years Kahlo

made her painting more and more realistic and added better elements to do

so. Later the couple had an incident with what they putting in their painting

and moved back to mexico a couple months after the incident. Kahlo had

marriage trouble like her husband cheating and cut off most of her hair. She

was sad when she lost her baby. In 1938 Kahlo befriended on famous artist

Andre Breton and started to develop her paintings. In that same year she

held an exhibition in a gallery and sold a lot of painting in that gallery. The

next year Kahlo went paris to show some of paintings in gallery. She made

one of her famous painting there. Over the years she gain health problems

and lost her father. She remarried diego, but lead separate lives. When she

died her fame grew more and more, Her famous blue house turned into a
museum of her painting. She was viewed as an iconic figure of women all

around the world.

Over the years Kahlo painted lots of small objects and food. She was

interested in accuracy and precision in her paintings. She often used

personification in her painting to give object human expression and

emotion.In the painting above, also in the painting she painted in the

following years (Weeping Coconuts)the coconut is used like a personification

and given human expression by crying you can see all of the small details

the coconut is given. This ultimately representing her inspiration at the

moment she was painting at the time, or,a grief of all of her friends and

family she lost during this time period she often did this in her painting. You

can by the amount of details and quality in "Weeping Coconuts" that she

spent a lot of time with this painting.Not much color was used in this painting

because this is not one of her usual painting.This painting has no deep

message and no flag, just a common "back to nature" still life painting. Tried

to see what kind of painting she drew the best at.

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http://www.biography.com/people/frida-kahlo-9359496