Frida Kahlo's What The Water Gave Me

Frida Kahlo was born lived and created her art in first half of the 20th century. She was born in 1907 in Mexico and died there in 1954. She became painting after in 1925 she got into car accident that dramatically changed her life. She didn’t receive any education after she finished school but she connected her life with arts forever. During her life she was an activist of the Mexican Communist Party and was married with a famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He played one of the most important roles in her life. On day Frida would say: “There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley (Author´s note: referring to the accident), and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”

Frida’s as well as Hieronymus Bosch’s art are often associated with genre of the surrealism. Clearly, the school of surrealism didn’t exist during the time when Bosch created his Garden, while surrealism began in 1920s and was well developed by 1930s and 1940s, when Frida painted What the Water Gave me and Moses, the works that I explore in my comparative study. …show more content…
But Frida hesitated to relate herself with any art movement. She wrote to her friend, the art historian Antonio Rodriquez in 1952: "I really don't know whether my paintings are Surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most honest expression of myself, taking no account of the opinions and prejudices of