Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was born on July 6th, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico. Frida was a Mexican painter who was known for her self-portraits. Frida who was married to Diego Rivera ironically was a bisexual feminist. Kahlo had a tough marriage with Diego Rivera. Frida always had health problems, at the age of six she had been diagnosed with Polio. Polio is an infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis. Also because of Polio her right leg was left thinner than the left causing walking to be more difficult than a normal person, Frida had always tried to hide this by wearing long skirts.
Then something very tragic happened when she had turned 18 years old, where on September 17, 1925, Frida was riding in a bus which then collided with a trolley car. She suffered from very fatal injuries such as a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. On top of all of those injuries an iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus causing her to not be able to have children. …show more content…
All of her paintings had specific meaning behind them, where most of them were about her not being able to reproduce because of the bus accident. Over her entire lifetime, Frida had created at least 140 paintings each with individual meaning behind along with other drawings and such. Frida and Diego had meet each other in the Ministry of Public Education where Frida went up to Diego and showed him 4 of her paintings and had asked whether he considered her gifted. After this Diego became a welcomed visitor in her household. They then ended up getting married in
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was born on July 6th, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico. Frida was a Mexican painter who was known for her self-portraits. Frida who was married to Diego Rivera ironically was a bisexual feminist. Kahlo had a tough marriage with Diego Rivera. Frida always had health problems, at the age of six she had been diagnosed with Polio. Polio is an infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis. Also because of Polio her right leg was left thinner than the left causing walking to be more difficult than a normal person, Frida had always tried to hide this by wearing long skirts.
Then something very tragic happened when she had turned 18 years old, where on September 17, 1925, Frida was riding in a bus which then collided with a trolley car. She suffered from very fatal injuries such as a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. On top of all of those injuries an iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus causing her to not be able to have children. …show more content…
All of her paintings had specific meaning behind them, where most of them were about her not being able to reproduce because of the bus accident. Over her entire lifetime, Frida had created at least 140 paintings each with individual meaning behind along with other drawings and such. Frida and Diego had meet each other in the Ministry of Public Education where Frida went up to Diego and showed him 4 of her paintings and had asked whether he considered her gifted. After this Diego became a welcomed visitor in her household. They then ended up getting married in