Frida Kahlo - Mexican Artists

Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico’s most well-known artists and even feminist icon, celebrated for her fervent incommutability in the face of life’s trials. She’s best known for her bold self-portraits portray the pain she skilled in her personal life. As a child Kahlo had polio; at the age of 18 she broke her right leg and pelvis in a terrible bus accident, foremost to a lifetime of constant pain. Partially motionless after the accident, Kahlo began painting during late 1920s.

She married famous muralist Diego Rivera during 1929 and together they traveled in United States, staying in Detroit and New York City in the early 1930s. In the late 1930s Kahlo had show of her paintings in New York City and Paris and linked with some of the well-liked painters in the world. Kahlo and Rivera were both recognized for their extramarital affairs and in 1940 they divorced for a short time before remarrying. During the ’40s Kahlo gained global credit for her colorful and sometimes grisly paintings (as well as for her bold public persona), but she sustained to have health problems. She died in 1954 just after her 47th birthday.

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