20 CURIOSITIES OF FRIDA KAHLO THAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW

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Let him raise his hand who never heard of Frida Kahlo. Yes, exactly, that Mexican artist with a good pair of eyebrows and an overwhelming personality, which has become one of the most beloved and well-known Mexican icons. But do you know a lot about her? Maybe not so much ... if it's a character that intrigues you, maybe this post with 20 curiosities about Frida Kahlo serve you to know her even better (or so I hope hehe).

1. Your real name it wasn't Frida: he decided to call himself that in 1935, but it was actually called Madgalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo.

2. It was not the only change he made in his biography: his date of birth It was July 6, 1907, although later she herself began to say that she was born in 1910 (the year of the Mexican Revolution).

3. His health was delicate from an early age: at 6 years had polio and, because of this disease, one leg was slightly shorter than the other. Her classmates nicknamed her "Frida wooden leg" nickname that she used to sign some of her paintings.

4. Your father was of German origin and worked as a photographer (he even worked for Porfirio Diaz himself). This well-paid job allowed him to offer a good education to his daughters.

5. Frida I study medicineIn fact, she was one of the first women to study at the National High School. Although fate had other plans for her ...

6. One day, while on a bus with her first boyfriend, Alejandro Gomez Arias, he realized that he had forgotten his umbrella at school. They decided to get off to go back for him, and then take another bus. This decision radically changed his life. East bus had a very serious accident: A tram hit them and Frida ended up with ribs, clavicles, pelvis, right leg, damaged shoulder and spine. In addition, a piece of iron passed through the abdomen and uterus (it is the reason why she could never be a mother). It was September 17, 1925.

7. They say one of the passengers of the fateful bus he was carrying golden powders which, after the accident, covered Frida's bloody body.

8. Following this accident his life changed forever: after spending so much time in bed and unable to move, he began drawing to entertain himself and ... you know how it ended.

9. Frida never fully recovered: over the years underwent about 35 surgical operationsHe had to wear plaster corsets, and generally go through periods of much physical pain. Something very recurring in his paintings are the butterflies: She said she felt fragile like the wings of this animal.

10. His appearance was, at least, different. I let the eyebrow hair and he did not worry that his mustache was quite marked, he did not shave his armpits or legs, and even in his self-portraits he exaggerated it, in an act of rebellion against stereotypes. He also always wore local clothes, especially the tehuana costume, a typical regional costume of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, with a clearly matriarchal society.

The famous cover of Vogue, where Frida appears

11. In some paintings, his bed and a skeleton lying on the canopy. This was interpreted as an added element, symbolizing death. However the skeleton was real! This is one of the mache paper dolls that are usually burned at the "burning of Judas" holiday in Holy Week, and he had it on his bed.

12. She said that in her life she had two big accidents: the first was the bus, and the second was Diego Rivera. It was the love of his life, with which he married in 1929. Diego, by that time, was already an acclaimed muralist of communist ideology. His love was very great, and also painful: Diego never knew how to be faithful, even betrayed her with her sister. They divorced but ... they remarried. It was a somewhat peculiar relationship, well, very peculiar. Frida's mother, upon learning that her daughter would marry Diego (20 years older than her, a communist and not very physically graceful) said that they looked like an elephant and a dove.

13. At the beginning of the relationship, Frida suffered a lot from Diego's betrayals, although she soon began to do the same. Moreover, they say that Frida was looking for Diego's lovers and told them that she would be able to love them much better than him. And in many cases he had the opportunity to prove it. Yes: Frida was bisexual, had a very liberal view of sexuality.

14. Throughout his life he had several lovers, among which the American photographer stands out Nickolas Muray (Thanks to him we can enjoy so many photographs of Frida), Leon Trotsky Y Chavela Vargas.

15. Frida painted some 155 pictures (55 of which were self portraits). He said: "I paint self-portraits because I am alone for a long time, and I paint myself because I am the one I know best”.

16. André Breton thought that Frida was a surreal artist (Although after visiting Mexico he said that what was really surreal ... was the country). Thanks to him and his admiration for her, Frida participated in a exhibition in Paris. His painting "El marco" was the first work of a Mexican artist of the twentieth century bought by the Louvre.

17. Frida passed a season in the United States with Diego. But he didn't like anything. He found it cold, gray, capitalist and missed Mexico, its colors, its joy, its food. In the United States (specifically in Detroit) he had an abortion, which inspired him to paint one of his crudest paintings: "Henry Ford Hospital."

18. In 1954 his health worsened sharply and He died on July 13 with only 47 years. In the same year he was able to fulfill a dream: to have a own exhibition in Mexico. Her doctor had forbidden her to get out of bed ... so she attended in her bed!

19. The last words that are read in his diary are "I hope a happy outing and I hope never to return”.

20. Diego died 2 years later. His last wish was that his ashes be placed near those of Frida, in the Blue House. However, rest at the Rotunda of Illustrious People. It seems very sad to us, doesn't it?

Do you know more curiosities about Frida Kahlo? Hopefully you have liked these 20 and that you have been able to know some more information about this peculiar woman.

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