Frida Kahlo Identity

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The female Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, famous for her self-portraits and her own personal experiences occurring during the period of her life where she was having an identity crisis “along with the rest of the post-revolutionary Mexico” (Frida Kahlo - Identity/Duality, Gillingham, Amie). A lot of her identity crisis revolved around both her separation from her homeland and the struggles and problems that it was facing. Her father being a German Jew and her mother being of an ingenious Mexican/Spanish mix, from this Kahlo “had the task of trying to reconcile her Mexican self with her European self in her search for wholeness” as well as identity.The Two Fridas, “The double self portrait” (Khan Academy) was inspired by her separation from her

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