Frida essays

Frida essays Frida Kahlo is a Mexican painter, born on July 6, 1907 and dead on July 13, 1954. Frida claimed to be born on 1910, the year of the outbreak of the Mexican revolution, because she wanted her life to began together with the modern Mexico. This detail well introduces us to a singular personality, characterized by her childhood, which was a deep sense of independence and rebellion against social and moral ordinary habits. She was moved by passion and sensuality, proud of her "Mexicanidad"(he was not Mexican, a white immigrant to Mexico) and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization: everything mixed with a peculiar sense of humor. Her life was marked by physical suffering, it started with the polio she contracted at the age of five and worsened by her life-dominating event which occurred in 1925. A bus accident caused severe injuries to her body owing to a pole that pierced her from the stomach to the pelvis. The accident left her with a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and 11 fractures in her right leg. In addition her right foot was dislocated and crushed, and her shoulder was out of joint. For a month, Frida was forced to stay flat on her back, encased in a plaster cast and enclosed in a boxlike structure. The medicine of her time tortured her body with surgical operations (32 throughout her life), corsets of different kinds and mechanical "stretching" systems. Lots of her works were painted laying in the bed. Because of these physical conditions Frida was never able to have any children and this was a great sorrow for her. She had a great love, Diego Rivera (she married twice with this man and dedicated to him a passionate diary) but also a lot of lovers, men and women, such as Leon Trotsky and Andr Breton's wife. Diego and Frida were married on August 21,1929. Their marriage consisted of love, affairs with other people, creative bonding, hat ...