#frida self portrait

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Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) • Yo y Mi Muñeca (Me and my Doll) • 1937 • Oil on metal

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Frida Kahlo, "What the Water Gave Me", 1938

"Like all Kahlo's work, this painting manifests her lifelong battle with pain. In English, it is also called What I Saw in the Water and is a self-portrait of the artist [...] Dominating the painting are those terrifying toes. As a child Kahlo had both polio and spina bifida, which was only diagnosed when she was 23. [...] When Kahlo was 18, her pelvis was smashed in a bus crash and a broken rail pierced her abdomen and uterus. Of the 30-plus subsequent operations she endured, most were on her back, right leg and right foot and the wreckage in the painting is densest over her right leg." – Ruth Padel

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Frida Kahlo - Self Portrait with Loose Hair (1947)

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Frida Kahlo

Self Portrait with Cropped Hair

1940

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Diego Observing Frida Paint 'Self-Portrait on the Borderline'

Photographer Unknown

Detroit, 1932

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Self portrait by Frida Kahlo and her Itzcuintli dog, 1938.

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Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo, 1937

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Frida Kahlo, "Self Portrait as a Tehuana", 1943. This painting is also known as: "Diego in My Thoughts" and "Thinking of Diego". "Magdalena Frida Carmen Kahlo y Calderón (1907 - 1954), aka Frida Kahlo, was a Mexican painter. Her work revolves around her experiences. She created a total of 150 works, mainly self-portraits, in which she projected her difficulties in surviving. She is also considered a pop icon of Mexican culture." In this portrait she is wearing Mexican traditional Tehuana costume.

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Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954), Without Hope, 1945. [3000 × 2333]

"This painting was painted in the year of 1945 when Frida Kahlo was forced to be fed by the prescription of her doctor. In the back of this painting Frida Kahlo wrote down the following explanation:"

"Not the least hope remains to me...Everything move in time with what the belly contains."

Courtesy of www.FridaKahlo.org

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“The Frame” (1938), Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo is considered to be the first surrealist painter and was the first Mexican woman artist to be represented in a major European institution, The Louvre, Paris. This was the painting they acquired in 1939!

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Frida Kahlo

July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954

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Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) • Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky • 1937 • Oil on Masonite • National Museum of Women in the Arts

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

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Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947

including the words:

"Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is July, 1947. In Coyoacan, Mexico, the place where I was born".

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Frida Kahlo - The Wounded Table, 1940, recreated by Karla Cordova

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Frida Kahlo, The Frame, 1939, oil/aluminum (Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris)

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In her 1932 painting Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States, a defiant Frida straddles an imaginary boundary between Mexico and Detroit, where she was living at the time with her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera. The Mexican side is strewn with skulls, ruins, plants, and flowers with thick roots burrowed deep into the soil. The Detroit side contains factories, skyscrapers, and plumes of smoke—an industrial city that hides the natural cycle of life and death.

While living in Detroit, Kahlo became pregnant. She wrote of the pregnancy to her former physician, Leo Eloesser, her devoted correspondent from 1932 to 1951. She worried that pregnancy was too dangerous, that her body had been damaged by the famous streetcar accident that shattered part of her pelvis and punctured her uterus. Kahlo reported that her doctor in Detroit “gave me quinine and very strong castor oil for purge.” When the chemicals failed to end the pregnancy, her doctor declined to perform a surgical abortion, and Kahlo faced the prospect of carrying the risky pregnancy to term. She begged Eloesser to write to her doctor in Detroit, “since performing an abortion is against the law, maybe he is scared or something, and later it would be impossible to undergo such an operation.” We don’t know how Eloesser responded to Kahlo’s request, but two months later, she suffered a violent miscarriage.

In a painting she created after her experience, Henry Ford Hospital (La cama volando), Frida lies naked on a hospital bed, the sheets soaked with blood. Objects float in the space around her, attached to her stomach by umbilical cords made of red ribbon: a male fetus (her son), medical objects, and symbols like a snail and an orchid. Detroit’s stark, manufacturing skyline disturbs the background.

Regardless of her visceral distaste for Detroit and the horrible misfortune that occurred there, art historian Victor Zamudio Taylor claims it was here that “Kahlo, for the first time, consciously decides that she will paint about herself, and that she will paint the most private and painful aspects of herself.”

— From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty