Frida Kahlo

Hi just wanted to share with everyone a biography a saw on television that have me great pride to know that she is also Hispanic like me. When I was growing up she really got my attention because of her courage to be herself. It’s Frida Kahlo a woman that was well beyond her period because she was able to stand up for herself as a women when most women where looked down. She was a great fighter for women rights and was not afraid to speak up no matter who it was. Frida had to over come many accidents in her life as when she was only six years and had a poliomyelitis which caused her to have her right leg with a slight limp. Then in  1926 Frida had a terrible accident when going to school which broke her spine in three parts and caused her to stay in bed many months but the worst was that this caused her reproductive organs to be damaged. In 1927 she met Diego Rivera while he was working on ‘La Creacion’ and she shown him her work and he was interested in her work. They started to spend time together and with in two years they were married. Diego and Frida went to the United States where he was hired to paint and she was able to meet many important people and continued her for in New York. She tried to get pregnant but was not able to and many of those pregnancy almost caused her life. She went into many depression and painting was the only way to get her thru it all. Frida was getting know for her self portrait because for the time period it was not normal for anyone to draw them self and especially the anatomy of the person. Frida’s painting was her way to express herself and let out all the frustration she had with life and with Diego. She was becoming know in the artist circle because of her painting which were not in norm of the time with showing with great detail the way she was hurting inside as with the painting when she was having an abortion because her child had died inside of her and this almost killed her not just physically but also emotionally.  Frida Kahlo is a Mexican woman which everyone should be aware of because of her great talent and her bravery to overcome all the obstacles in life.