Frida Kahlo Influences

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Frida Kahlo had many factors that helped to shape her art and world. Each aspect in Kahlo’s life, affected many lives even after her death. Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, but she often told those who met her that she was born in 1910, to identify herself as a daughter of the Mexican Revolution. At the young age of six, Frida contracted polio. She would live, but was restricted to bed rest for nearly a year, one leg that was shorter than the other, and ulcers in her feet that would later cause the need to amputate her right leg. At fifteen, Frida enter the National Preparatory School, where she studied biology and physiology, in hopes of becoming a doctor, which would later be used in many of her pieces. At eighteen, Frida was severely injured in a bus accident, in which she was pierced with a metal rod through her pelvis, in addition to many broken bones and internal bleeding. Her spine had been pushed so far out of place and her pelvis so severely damaged that she was forced to wear massive body casts to help aid in her healing process. Frida would never fully recover from her injuries, and the pain would plague her until she died. Frida began to paint and draw to pass…show more content…
Over time her health has been deteriorating significantly. She has undergone multiple spinal taps, has had six operations on her spine, and over a decade of her life confined to her bed. In 1953, Frida holds her first ever solo exhibition in Mexico. On July 13, 1954, Frida is pronounced dead. Officially it is reported as” pulmonary embolism” but many of those close to her feel she may have committed suicide. This brief history of Frida Kahlo’s life sets forth the important events in her life, it reveals Frida’s gender, race, class culture, and history, this is contributed in shaping kahlo’s world she worked within in different
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