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FRIDA KAHLO

FRIDA KAHLO. “They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams, only my reality.” --Frida Kahlo. Early Life. She was born to an European Father of Jewish-Hungarian descent and a Mexican Mother on July 6 th , 1907 (according to her birth certificate).

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FRIDA KAHLO

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  1. FRIDA KAHLO “They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams, only my reality.” --Frida Kahlo

  2. Early Life • She was born to an European Father of Jewish-Hungarian descent and a Mexican Mother on July 6th, 1907 (according to her birth certificate). • This had a huge impact on her life, trying to fit between the two cultures.

  3. Early Life • At age 6, Frida suffered from Polio. This caused her right leg to be thinner indefinately. • She was a tom-boy in high school • In high school is when she met Diego Rivera a famous Mexican Painter

  4. Early Life • On September 17, 1925, she was involved in a terrible bus accident which broke her spinal column • She was expected to die, and lived for a month in a full body cast • This accident though emotionally and physically damaged her for the rest of her life. • But, she started painting during her recovery. • Her style Self-portraits.

  5. “Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress” -Frida Kahlo (1927)

  6. Married Life—with Diego Rivera • In 1929, Frida married Diego Rivera, a famous muralist painter in Mexico. • He encouraged her to paint her Mexican roots, similar to his. • He painted Mexico and it’s indigenous roots, especially lilies (alcatraces). • She painted that as well, but also with her own conflictual style between her two different descents.

  7. Diego Rivera’s Mexican Paintings influenced by Mexican Culture

  8. Married Life—With Diego Rivera • Their marriage consisted of love, affairs with other people, creative bonding, hate, and a divorce in 1940 that lasted only for one year. • Their marriage has been called the union between an elephant and a dove, because Diego was huge and very fat, and Frida was small (a little over 5 feet) and slender.

  9. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo "Frieda and Diego Rivera" by Frida Kahlo

  10. Married Life—With Diego Rivera • Despite all the affairs, they truly did love each other. • They were always scene together in a loving way. • They knew of each others affairs and actually would joke around with each other and others about them • One dealt with the murder of a communist leader, in which both were arrested for and later released. Years later they “told stories” about how they brought him to Mexico to murder him.

  11. Painter’s Life • Frida Kahlo painted many paintings from the time of her accident to her death. • She was world renowned for her paintings and had exhibitions all over the world, especially in New York and France. • They all loved her beauty and paintings. • She was even “wined and dined” by Picasso in France. • In Mexico, she had many great admirers.

  12. Painter’s Life • She was always in physical pain because of her accident. She even had to have her leg amputated at one of exhibitions her exhibitions which she never missed. • This led her to be depressed and suicidal. • She died on July 13, 1954. • Suicide is rumored, because the last phrase in her diary was "I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return“.

  13. Her paintings---Characteristics • Painted “her reality” • Self-portraits, with her Uni-eyebrow • Included “love and patriotism” • Family, health, love relationships and beliefs • Conflict between two different lives. • Mexican heritage • Supported the Mexican Revoluntion and what it stood for from 1910.

  14. “Self-portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States” (1931)…Frida Kahlo

  15. “Dos Fridas” (1939)…por Frida Kahlo

  16. Surrealistic??? • Surrealism--A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious • It is characterized by fantastic imagery.

  17. Example of Surrealism ---Salvador Dali

  18. According to Frida Kahlo… • …. “They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams, only my reality.” • --Frida Kahlo

  19. References • http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/surrealism • http://www.wku.edu/geoweb/human/las-geography.htm • http://www.dhjh.tp.edu.tw/tank/LessonPlans/plan084_fridakahlo/plan084_fridakahlo_en.htm • http://www.art.com/asp/sp.asp?PD=10085411&RFID=346898&engine=sitematch • http://www.fridakahlofans.com/essay.html • http://www.fridakahlofans.com/c0110.html • http://www.fridakahlofans.com/c0290.htm • All accessed on January 3rd, 2008!!!!!

  20. Class Activity---1/9, 1/10, due 1/11 • “They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams, only my reality.” --Kahlo • Draw your own reality as of this week (today)---Include • 1. Did students express the feelings of life, love, or beliefs in their self-portraits? (15 points) • 2. Did students make their self-portraits as impressive as possible? (15 points) • 3. Can students describe the symbols or forms they used? (10 points) • 4. Can students explain the messages they attempt to express? (10 points)

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