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Famous paintings come to life in these quarantine works of art". PBS NewsHour. 15 April 2020 . Retrieved 21 July 2020. In addition to Aztec legends, Kahlo frequently depicted two central female figures from Mexican folklore in her paintings: La Llorona and La Malinche [122] as interlinked to the hard situations, the suffering, misfortune or judgement, as being calamitous, wretched or being " de la chingada". [123] For example, when she painted herself following her miscarriage in Detroit in Henry Ford Hospital (1932), she shows herself as weeping, with dishevelled hair and an exposed heart, which are all considered part of the appearance of La Llorona, a woman who murdered her children. [124] The painting was traditionally interpreted as simply a depiction of Kahlo's grief and pain over her failed pregnancies. But with the interpretation of the symbols in the painting and the information of Kahlo's actual views towards motherhood from her correspondence, the painting has been seen as depicting the unconventional and taboo choice of a woman remaining childless in Mexican society. [125] Kahlo (y Calderón), (Magdalena Carmen) Frida". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 11 November 2020. doi: 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00096735. ISBN 9780199899913 . Retrieved 4 March 2021. Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón [a] was born on 6 July 1907 in Coyoacán, a village on the outskirts of Mexico City. [134] [135] Kahlo stated that she was born at the family home, La Casa Azul (The Blue House), but according to the official birth registry, the birth took place at the nearby home of her maternal grandmother. [136] Kahlo's parents were photographer Guillermo Kahlo (1871–1941) and Matilde Calderón y González (1876–1932), and they were thirty-six and thirty, respectively, when they had her. [137] Originally from Germany, Guillermo had immigrated to Mexico in 1891, after epilepsy caused by an accident ended his university studies. [138] Although Kahlo said her father was Jewish and her paternal grandparents were Jews from the city of Arad, [139] this claim was challenged in 2006 by a pair of German genealogists who found he was instead a Lutheran. [140] [141] Matilde was born in Oaxaca to an Indigenous father and a mother of Spanish descent. [142] In addition to Kahlo, the marriage produced daughters Matilde ( c. 1898–1951), Adriana ( c. 1902–1968), and Cristina ( c. 1908–1964). [143] She had two half-sisters from Guillermo's first marriage, María Luisa and Margarita, but they were raised in a convent. [144]

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Born to a German father and a mestiza mother, Kahlo spent most of her childhood and adult life at La Casa Azul, her family home in Coyoacán– now publicly accessible as the Frida Kahlo Museum. Although she was disabled by polio as a child, Kahlo had been a promising student headed for medical school until being injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. During her recovery, she returned to her childhood interest in art with the idea of becoming an artist. glbtq >> arts >> Kahlo, Frida". 10 November 2013. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013 . Retrieved 24 February 2020. Wilcox, Claire, and Henestrosa, Circe (ed.) (2018). Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up . London: V&A Publishing. Over 200 objects have arrived from the Casa Azul, Kahlo’s former residence and the home where she was born, raised, and eventually died, which is now a museum dedicated to her life and work. The belongings retell Kahlo’s well-known life story, but with new insights: There’s an album of photographs of churches taken by her Hungarian-German father, Guillermo, and the medical braces and bodices embellished with symbols that she wore following the horrific accident that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Kahlo’s own telling of her physical suffering after the accident and her subsequent miscarriages is well-documented in the diaries she left behind, as well as a biography, but these bodices illustrate the ways that she found solace and healing through art, in a very direct way. Herrera 2002, pp.276–277, 295–315; Kettenmann 2003, pp.52, 56; Zamora 1990, pp.64, 70; Burrus 2005, p.205.Despite concealing her condition in her dresses at times, Kahlo also shared her pain with the world. The show includes a photograph in which she proudly reveals one of her plaster corsets, as well as a self-portrait in which she’s posed in an elaborate leather orthopedic brace, which is on view in a nearby case. Seeing in real life the very objects that appear in portraits of Kahlo is undoubtedly the highlight of the show. Snell, Zoe (12 April 2022). "Watch Out: The Latest Swatch Collaboration". The Market Herald Fancy. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023 . Retrieved 3 January 2023. Tibol, Raquel. (1993). Frida Kahlo: an open life. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0585211388. OCLC 44965043. Review: Shand, John (4 January 2023). "This Frida Kahlo 'biography' is magical and moving". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 5 January 2023. a b Herrera 2002, pp.133–160; Burrus 2005, pp.201; Zamora 1990, p.46; Kettenmann 2003, p.32; Ankori 2013, p.87–94.

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Ankori, Gannit (2005). "Frida Kahlo: The Fabric of Her Art". In Dexter, Emma (ed.). Frida Kahlo. Tate Modern. ISBN 1-85437-586-5. Vincent Van Gogh // For Van Gogh we kept it really simple. We bought a red wig and beard and then trimmed it to look like Van Gogh then wrapped some gauze over his poor ear. You could also frame a small picture of Starry Night and carry it around.Brown, Monica and Parra, John (Illustrator). 2017. Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos. New York: NorthSouth. The demonstration worsened her illness, and on the night of 12 July 1954, Kahlo had a high fever and was in extreme pain. [247] At approximately 6 a.m. on 13 July 1954, her nurse found her dead in her bed. [248] Kahlo was 47 years old. The official cause of death was pulmonary embolism, although no autopsy was performed. [247] Herrera has argued that Kahlo, in fact, committed suicide. [84] [247] The nurse, who counted Kahlo's painkillers to monitor her drug use, stated that Kahlo had taken an overdose the night she died. She had been prescribed a maximum dose of seven pills but had taken eleven. [249] She had also given Rivera a wedding anniversary present that evening, over a month in advance. [249] The only changes I made was to completely line the top and to lengthen the skirt to maxi length. I was so happy with the way it came out. She can definitely wear both of these piece again. What I respond to with Frida is her courage to be unique; her courage to be different," says Salma Hayek, who beat off Madonna and Jennifer Lopez to become Hollywood's Frida, and whose performance in the film she produced herself has just won Hayek an Oscar nomination for best actress. "She lived her life exactly as she wanted and never apologised. She was bisexual at a very young age - well before she was in a group of people with whom it would have been more accepted. I think she got caught with the librarian of her school right before the accident." And is the region really matriarchal? "It's true. It's true in some parts. They are very strong women - they work very hard, they have very interesting traditions. It is like a matriarchy in the sense that they are the ones that work, they organise the society. However, you still have to be a virgin when you get married. You are tested. They have one test that you have to put a thing around your head, like a thread, then if you can do the correct thing with it then you're a virgin, and if you can't, you're not. I used to know it - just in case my mom would test me."