1. Frida Kahlo
autobiography
por T. A. C.

2. "I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."
Frida Kahlo
autobiography
"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."

3. Frida Kahlo autobiography Difficult life Born 1907 Mexico City
Age 6 Polio & Limp
Tomboy
1922 Preparatoria
Meets Diego Rivera
teases, practical jokes, jealousy of wife

4. Frida Kahlo autobiography 1925 bus accident collide with a tramcar
rod pierces her mid-section
leg & pelvis injured
never have children
paints first self-portrait

5. Frida Kahlo autobiography
"I paint self-portraits because I am the person I know best. I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other considerations."

6. Frida Kahlo autobiography
'I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.'
1928 Diego & Frida meet again
Diego divorced
much in common
politics – communist militants
Marry 1929

7. Frida Kahlo autobiography 55 of her 143 paintings are self-portraits
Husband - Diego Rivera, said:
"Frida is the only example in the history of art of an artist who tore open her chest and heart to reveal the biological truth of her feelings. The only woman who has expressed in her work an art of the feelings, functions, and creative power of woman."

8. Frida Kahlo autobiography Travel to United States Arm piece to Diego
Frida has miscarriage
Paints Miscarriage in Detroit
Style – Mexican Folk Art – Retablos
Diego loves U.S.
Frida despises it

9. Frida Kahlo autobiography
Diego said of Frida: “Frida began work on a series of masterpieces which had no precedent in the history of art - paintings which exalted the feminine quality of truth, reality, cruelty and suffering. Never before had a woman put such agonized poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.”

10. Frida Kahlo autobiography Return to Mexico Diego with Cristina
Diego a notorious cheater
Frida cheats
men and women
Diego tolerates lesbianism
violent jealous of men

11. Frida Kahlo autobiography André Breton - Surrealist
arranges show New York 1938
success – 12 paintings sold
1939 show in Paris
praise from Picasso

12. Frida Kahlo autobiography Surrealism & Frida
violent dislike for what she called 'this bunch of coocoo lunatic surrealists.'
Vehement denials: 'They thought I was a Surrealist,' she said, 'but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.'

13. Frida Kahlo autobiography 1940 Frida & Diego divorce unknown reasons
1940 in U.S. Frida & Diego remarry for her health
1944 health deteriorates
surgeries (for Diego?)
year in a hospital
More famous still (1st in U.S)

14. Frida Kahlo autobiography 1954 1st show in Mexico too sick to attend?
sends bed
arrived by ambulance
carried in on stretcher
1954 loses a leg
blow to self-esteem
appearance!!!

15. Frida Kahlo autobiography 1954 dies in her sleep suicide?
Her last diary entry read: 'I hope the end is joyful - and I hope never to come back - Frida.'"
physical and emotional pain
suffering on the canvas; a sort of therapy to survive

16. Frida Kahlo
autobiography
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