Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many self-portraits and works inspired by Mexican culture. She was born in Mexico in 1907 and suffered polio as a child and a serious bus accident in her youth that caused lifelong pain. In the 1920s, she met Diego Rivera and married him in 1929. Kahlo's art often depicted her physical and psychological pain through portraits that reflected Mexican folk art. Her most famous work is "The Two Fridas" depicting her divorce. Kahlo's art is now celebrated internationally as a depiction of female experience and Mexican traditions.

1. FRIDA
KAHLO
Mexican Painter
July-1907

2. Kahlo was a Mexican painter
known for her many portraits,
self portraits, and works
inspired by the nature and
artifacts of Mexico.

3. ● Frida Kahlo was born July 6, 1907 in
Coyoacán, Mexico to Guillermo Kahlo, a
Hungarian/German-Jewish father and Matilde
Calderon y Gonzalez, a Spanish and Mexican
Indian mother.
● At age 6, Frida was struck with polio affecting
the use of her right leg
● Completion of her primary education at the
Colegio Aleman, Mexico's German school in
1922
● September 17, 1925 bus was stuck broadside
by a trolley car on her way home from school.

4. ● In 1928, Frida Met Diego Rivera for the first
time and Diego became a frequent visitor of
the Blue House.
● August 21, 1929, Frida and Diego had a civil
ceremony in Coyoacán.
● April of 1932, Diego and Frida moved to
Detroit where Rivera had been awarded a
commission from the Ford Motor Company to
paint a mural at the Detroit Institute of
Arts
● 1939, Kahlo and Rivera divorce.
● In 1950, Kahlo's physical condition worsens,
and she is hospitalized in Mexico City for one
year.
● In 1953, Kahlo has her first solo exhibition in
Mexico
● On July 13,1954, Kahlo dies in her sleep

5. Frida as an Artist
1. Frida’s 1st self portrait was “Self
Portrait in a Velvet Dress”, which was
her interpretation of Botticelli's "Venus”
2. She used to make self portraits with
animals sitting on her shoulders
3. Frida with her self portrait

6. The famous Two
Fridas Portrait
In 1939 Frida Kahlo painted a self-portrait called
“the two Fridas”, in order to assimilate her recent
divorce, it is said to be the expression of her feelings
since she always used her works as a means of
expressing her interiority as well as to release her
tensions and feelings.

7. Achievements
Frida Kahlo’s work has been celebrated
internationally as emblematic of Mexican nation
and indigenous traditions and by feminists for
what is seen as its uncompromising depiction of
female experience and form.

8. The Frida Kahlo Museum (Spanish: Museo Frida Kahlo), also known as the Blue House (La Casa Azul) for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic
house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

9. FAMOUS QUOTES BY FRIDA!

10. FAMOUS QUOTES BY FRIDA!