Frida Kahlo

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

― Frida Kahlo

FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954)
'The Broken Column', 1944 (oil on board)

 

 

Self Portrait Artist      Frida Kahlo  

July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1934

Mexican Artist Frida Khalo paintings are demonstrative of the suffering she endured throughout her lifetime.  Kahlo suffered from polio, as a child.  Later as a teenager, a bus accident left her incapacitated with fractures to her spine, pelvic and most  of her body.  Frida's suffering and pain enabled her to draw attention to the reality of patriarchy and the objectification of women  during the 19th century.
Kahlo, lived and died a martyr and an object of the era in which woman were oppressed.