Frida

Frida Kahlo’s art presented herself as what she really saw. The self-portraits she created were not idealized or meant to be surreal, but an actual representation of the person she thought she was. This pure expression of the self, inspired my own work in many ways. I wanted to create something with duality, as many of her pieces have, and that expressed my sense of self as purely as possible. There were a few challenges I faced, but overall, using Frida Kahlo as inspiration showed me how art connects the conscious to the primary world. The reason I chose Frida Kahlo as inspiration was because of her ability to create herself in a way other artists did not. I have always been fascinated by Frida Kahlo’s art. The surrealism her pieces…

Dyan L. Allen Psychology 2301 General Psychology Online Course 03/03/2017 I Title/Author · FRIDA: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera II Main Characters · Frida Kahlo · Guillermo Kahlo · Alejandro Arias · Diego Rivera III Setting/Time · Mexico, United States, Europe 1907-1954 IV Main Theme · Frida Kahlo’s life V Summary The author Hayden Herrera has spent many years researching and giving…

1907, Frida Kahlo, a Mexican-German descent artist, is born as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon in the “Blue House” in Coyoacan, Mexico. Frida was very fond of her Mexican heritage and displayed it throughout her life. She even changed her birth year to 1910 to coincide with the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. In 1922, Frida is one of the few women admitted to a prestigious National Preparatory school in Mexico City to study medicine. (Souter) While she studied there, Frida met with…

Frida Kahlo had a very eventful life that made her who she was, Frida Kahlo: the extraordinary artist. Kahlo did more in her short life than most people will ever do. Frida was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico, a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City where Frida grew up in a house in which her father had built that she knew as La Casa Azul, or the blue house. She was born as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, but to her and her family, she was simply Frida Kahlo. She always…

The artist who I find the most interesting is Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican self portrait artist. She was well known, and it still well known as a strong feminist icon. She was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoan, Mexico City, Mexico. Frida Kahlo began her art work after a horrific bus accident she was involved in which lead to fractures to her spine and pelvis. One of her art pieces included a visual representation of her accident, which shows her spirit reflecting over her body lying on…

Frida Khalo, is an artist from Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. She was born on July 6, 1907. She started painting after she was injured in a bus accident. She painted 143 paintings and 55 are self-portraits, which were from events in her life, from being tense, vibrant, lost and in love. Khalo married the artist Diego Rivera who is a communist. Then she exhibited her paintings in Mexico and Paris, before she died in 1954. From one of Khalos famous art pieces painted in 1939 was called, The Two…

Frida Kahlo is a very well known painter and political activist who had a very troubling life. She is known for painting about her physical appearance without making herself more beautiful and about very personal matters. During her life she had many health problems and was married twice to the same man, Diego Rivera. Her art was influenced by her beliefs; therefore, she would paint about her personal problems and her political ideas. Along with that her paintings are reflecting her personal…

Frida Kahlo, born July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico, defines herself as a woman and an artist by pursuing her passions and making her career a priority in a time when women were supposed to be submissive to men and focus solely on pleasing their husbands. Though Frida loved her husband Diego Rivera very much, she had the courage to branch out from what was considered normal at the time, and focus on herself and what she wanted out of her short life. She quickly rose to fame with her paintings…

Introduction Over the years, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) has become widely known for her prolific career as a painter of surrealist self-portraits. Much has been discussed about her cultural influences and references as well as the painful accidents and experiences she suffered during the course of her life. However, it appears that something that is rarely discussed is her intense admiration and collection of photography. This love is the primary focus of the recent traveling…

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…