In July 6, 1907 she was born in Coyoacan, just outside Mexico City. Her father was German. He made his daughter name, Frida, which means peace in German word. Her parents probably thought her life would develop much as the lives of other girls of that time. However, her life was not favorable. When she was six years old, she was stricken with polio. The painful disease caused her to be isolated for nine months and left her with one leg shorter and thinner than the other. Also, at age eighteen she was in a trolley car accident that was followed by ineffective orthopedic treatments and thirty-two operations over the course of her life. A young woman, becoming a painter was not a part of Frida's career goals. Her goal in life was to become a doctor but a tragic accident at age 18 changed the course of her life forever.
Some artists look to nature or society for their inspiration, but Frida Kahlo looked inward. After her crippling accident, Frida depicted her pain in haunting, dreamlike self-portraits. Most of her 200 paintings explore her vision of herself. Many of her paintings are self-portrait; in them she often included the parrots, monkey, and other pets whose company gave her so much pleasure. Despite their bold, bright colors, however, the paintings clearly express the pain behind them. When I saw Frida’s self-portrait, I ask myself, how can she draw her self-portrait? If I draw my self-portrait, how does it express to me? At that time, I tried several times; it was very hard to me.
She seemed to enjoy shocking people. She did this was to go about wearing men’s clothes. When I saw her pictures, she always wore long skirt, and decorated an ornament on hair. Sometimes she showed herself as eccentric to us. Chronic physical suffering caused by her illness and the accident led to a preoccupation with her severely damaged body. In spite of her pain, her art reveals her feelings.
Her life was an unconventional as her art. She married with the artist Diego Rivera August 21, 1929. He was an international leftist and surrealist leader. When I saw Frida and Diego's wedding pictures, I was chuckling. This husband and wife were not harmonized to external features. Diego was 42 years old, tall and 300 pounds; Frida was 22, and just 98 pounds. He was twice her age. At the time, Frida's mother did not approve of the union and did not attend the wedding ceremony. She said that Diego was too old, too fat and worse yet he was a Communist and an atheist. She said “the marriage between an elephant and a dove.” However, the marriage was a short. They were many separations, a divorce, and later a remarriage. They both had strong personalities and each found the other exasperating to live with. Nevertheless, their love was strong and deep; Rivera appears frequently in her painting. However, they were divorce in 1940. After divorce, she painted self-portrait with cropped hair, a decoration of independence from his infidelities. She sits staring back at us after putting on an oversized man’s suit and snipping at her hair. The work also shows the artist turning herself into a man, an image that hints at her bisexuality, but she remarried Rivera the next year.
Frida Kahlo was dramatic with a bohemian personality that enriched her distinctive painting style. Since her death in 1954, her international reputation has greatly increased. Frida died in July 13 1954, in the same room of the bright blue house in which she was born. She left her work as her legacy, to be sure. But equally inspirational is her life story and the fact that by transforming pain into brilliant art Frida Kahlo triumphed over misfortune. Despite all of the physical and emotional pain in Frida's life, she was an outgoing person. Finally, Frida has become the heroine of the Mexican avant-garde and the subject of several books and a movie.
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