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About Frida Kahlo (Basic Art)
The arresting self-portraits of Frida Kahlo (1907โ1954) stand as vivid expressions of pain, resilience, and defiance. Following a near-fatal bus accident at 18 and enduring a lifetime of physical and emotional suffering – from chronic illness to a turbulent marriage, miscarriage, and childlessness – Kahlo transformed her trauma into revolutionary art.
Through her unflinching gaze, Kahlo redefined self-portraiture, merging reality and symbolism in a deeply personal visual language. Her canvases teem with imagery of roots, veins, and vines – metaphors for both connection and confinement – while her politics and passion for Mexican identity imbued her work with cultural and ideological depth.
Rejecting victimhood, she used painting as a means of survival and self-definition, once describing her art as โthe most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.โ
This book celebrates Kahloโs extraordinary life and legacy – as an artist, a feminist icon, and a pioneering voice of Latin American modernism.
