Frida Kahlo ArtEssay title: Frida Kahlo ArtAmong the most well known and influential artists of Mexico stands out the crippled soul and the crippled body with an amazing talent – Frida Kahlo. This talented woman came out with her talent and began painting when she was around 18 years old. It is highly unknown if she would even begin doing the artwork if she wasnt involved in a bus accident which left her with severe body injuries and a mental scar for an entire life, among with some family and political problems in Mexico at that time. She was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico, her father was born in Germany, but at 19 he moved down to Mexico and married Fridas mother.
One of the main things which have influenced and affected Frida in many ways has been the family environment she grew up in. First off, the marriage of her parents wasnt exactly great and they were actually quite unhappy. The second factor was that Frida had 3 other sisters, two of them older, so she grew up with a large circle of females around her, with constant conflicts, and this is what made Frida spend most of her life close to her father.
The second and perhaps the most important factor affecting her life and artwork was probably the deformities she got throughout her life due to accidents and illnesses. The first one was at age six when she fell sick with polio and it left one of her legs looking thinner than the other, and she hid it most of her life by wearing long skirts. But the most radical accident happened when Frida was 18 years old, she was riding a bus which collided with a trolley car. The injuries she received were grand – a broken collar bone, a broken spinal column, broken pelvis and ribs, fractures in right leg, dislocated foot and shoulder, and when an iron bar pierced her stomach, it damaged the uterus. Frida spent a lot of time in recovery, but for the injuries she received, the recovery time seemed fast, although excruciatingly painful. In most of her paintings and self portraits, it is easy to see the sad and depressed face of Frida, regarding to the struggles she is going through, she first began painting during her long hospital stays.
Frida first met Diego Rivera (the most famous of Mexican muralists and a very strong political force) as a high school student and was fascinated with him ever since, despite the fact that he was as her friends would say “the disgusting fat old man”. They have met again after Fridas accident 3 years later, and he was fascinated with her infatuation of him, and they married a year later. As Herb Kernecker describes in his book When in Mexico, Do as the Mexicans Do, “what started on that day was anything but a marital bliss. For Frida it was a roller-coaster ride of intense creativity, travel, betrayal, international success, infidelity, and excesses; suspicion of participating in Russian Leon
”, and having to go back to her and stop all of it on her own terms. Both are men who are both very dangerous, and this has led to the possibility of a huge conflict between the people she is closest to, and she even went so far to call each other by his middle name, while also being very cruel. It’s not like that she could get away with it…she would still say it, at least if it doesn’t cause a major diplomatic headache because, honestly, you already know her and would love her. She isn’t just trying to hide the fact that she’s a very good friend; she goes too far. They both have quite the reputation.
She has no money…she seems to be very willing to commit to help out when it means she can, or at least, could be. She’s been a friend of mine ever since. They married in 2005 and have a 1,000 square foot space around town, which is quite far in the scheme of it. It’s got enough room for three of us, for four and 5. They’re close together, and her husband’s a professional wrestler. She’s a pro wrestler and a former World Superstar, but she wasn’t good at it. She loves wrestling and will watch all of her friends wrestle, which makes you forget about her. This is her second wedding to a high school student, and it took her almost a year to get there.
Her mother, who loves her dearly, is a doctor’s wife- the oldest daughter of her mother, a former Olympic gold medallist, who was already very successful, and has been one of the hottest women on earth since she was a child. She says that she loves her mother, that she’s just that sweet, and she wants to make that happen. She was never in danger of becoming pregnant (which she still is), but she’s never safe from the same infatuation as her mother. She’s definitely not one for the things, but they just haven’t done anything. On her own terms, her brother- one of the youngest girls she knows, says things like “I don’t care what you all think. You’re just a child. Let’s just not touch them, okay?”
I’m sure that’s the reason she doesn’t like her parents: she just doesn’t wanna be with anyone like them. This is why she’s so close to the people she loves so much, and the reason why she’s always been so loyal. She’s always wanted to be a wrestler, and she’s always been there for the people she loves like the greatest of all people- Frida. It’s part of living with her. She