She was seriously injured in a bus accident, at the age of 18, and spent over a year in bed recovering from fractures to her spine, collarbone and ribs, a severed pelvis, shoulder, and foot injuries. Frida endured many operations her lifetime, and during her convalescence she began to paint. Her paintings, mostly self-portraits, were extremely complex, and filled with the colors, and forms of Mexican folk art. Frida created many drawings and sketches related to her experiences in life, physical and emotional pain. Some people call her a surrealist although, she says that what she paints is her own reality.
As in one of her paintings the scene on the bus was bizarre. Frida’s clothes had come off in the collision and covering her bloodied body was a sprinkle of gold dust. When her body arrived at the hospital she was not expected to live. A year after the accident it was discovered that her spine had not healed properly and for the rest of her life she was forced to wear rigid corsets. She underwent many operations during her life including her spine and right foot, which she would do anything to save.
The life changing accident occurred on September 17th 1925, Frida and her friend Alex was involved in a severe bus crash, and Frida was damaged very severely. A metal rod had made a very deep wound in her abdominal, and her third and fourth lumbar vertebrae were fractured. Frida had received many more wounds, and she ended up trapped in a body cast for months. While Frida was confined to her bed, her mother brought her a small lap easel, and Frida started to paint. She had studied art before, at the National Preparatory School, where she had met Diego Rivera when he was painting the Creation mural, but Frida had never worked on paintings before.
All of her work follows a pattern of realistic detailed birds that are incorporated into teapots that are functional. Individual firings are made between each application of glaze. The whole process takes about 3 to 4 months for 7 to 10 pieces to be complete. Corcoran has permanent museum collections in Michigan state University, Los Angeles community museum of art, Philadelphia museum of art and a collection in the University of Arizona in Tucson which include many more. Biography Resources: http://www.annettecorcoran.com/collections.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Corcoran Artist’s Work Flamingo/2008/Porcelain/5.5x13x6 in./ http://www.annettecorcoran.com/gallery.php?year=2008&piece=C&page=1 Brown bird/2002/Porcelain/5.75x10.25x3 in./ http://www.annettecorcoran.com/gallery.php?year=2002&piece=A&page=1 Hawaiian Goose/2000/Porcelain/9x13x6.75 in./ http://www.annettecorcoran.com/gallery.php?year=2000&piece=C&page=1 King Penguin/2000/Porcelain/8.25x3.75x5.75 in./
Frida Kahlo’s was a successful Mexican painter, and a woman with exaggerated strength, passion and there was one thing she always wanted no matter what, to become a mother. She couldn’t achieve her dream because at the age of 18 she had an accident where her hips got seriously injured. She had 3 miscarriages because her injured body couldn’t stand the weight of the baby. She painted self-portraits and began to paint after the accident because she had to be on bed for a long time. Her artwork is about her life and the experiences and obstacles she went through due to her accident, culture, fantasies and bisexuality.
Frida Kahlo was born in 1907. Kahlo is a Mexican painter , famous and popular internationally for her outstanding artwork. Kahlo experienced a tragic accident in 1925 in which she suffered serious injuries that left her in hospital or bedridden for months at a time. This led her to turn herself away from medicine studies. Bored with nothing to do Kahlo taught herself to paint and it occupied her whist she was bedridden after the accident.
Her mother was a Mexican Catholic, while her father was a German Jew. At the age of eighteen, Kahlo was one of many victims of a horrific bus accident. The result was a broken arm, collar bone, ribs, pelvis, leg, a crushed foot, and being skewered by a metal rod (Mike Chronology). The recovery from this accident is what prompted her work as a serious artist. As she lay in bed, alone, her only escape, or way to express herself was through her art.
I had to go on independent study because I was bedridden. I started getting really sick again so I went to the hospital and by the middle of April they said they would have to take her. I was scared. I didn’t know if she would live or not. She was born April 21, 1993 weighing only three pounds fourteen ounces and was sixteen and a half inches long.
Both of her knees were crushed into the dash. Suddenly Kelli could not do the one thing she loved the most. After her surgery, there was still more a long recovery. Months of physical therapy were they told Kelli that she would never be able to compete in gymnastics again. Her world was crashing around her all over.
Frida’s life has had a number of painful events that have affected her paintings. When she was a little girl, she was diagnosed with Spinal Bifida. This caused her to have a spine pain throughout her life. She also was diagnosed with Polio at age six. This led to her right leg being slightly shorter and