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Introduction to Frida Kahlo and Surrealism

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Introduction to Surrealism and Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo's painting The Love Embrace of the Universe, The Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego and Señor Xó, created in 194...

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Personal tragedy struck Frida Kahlo in 1953, when due to complications her right leg was amputated below the knee. Kahlo’s last painting, which she completed shortly before she died, was a still life depiction of watermelons. The watermelon in Frida’s works became a frequent subject in Mexican art. ...

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This painting was commissioned by Don Jose Domingo Lavin. It was drawn as a miniature mural, maybe as a result of influence by her husband, the famous Diego Rivera, who was a muralist. In this painting, in the center is an abandoned baby which has a third eye in his forehead. The baby's face resembl...

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Since she was a child, Frida was close to photography. She used to accompany her father, Guillermo Kahlo —a well-known photographer of German origins and Hungarian heritage— she helped him in the darkroom, retouching photographic plates. This valuable archive containing more than five thousand image...

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The Bus is a painting by Frida Kahlo, which is an oil canvas. This painting dates back to the year 1929 and measures 10 by 22 inches. Looking at the painting, there is a woman holding a shopping basket, a man who seems to be in his blue work overalls, a mother breastfeeding her baby, a little boy lo...

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During an eighteen-month sojourn in San Francisco, Frida (also Frieda) Kahlo painted this portrait of herself and her new husband, Diego Rivera, for art patron and future supporter of the Museum Albert Bender. Kahlo had accompanied Rivera to San Francisco after he received a commission to execute mu...

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Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park is an enormous mural that contains 400 characters from Mexican history. The mural is a Surreal dream, a collection of events in a single space, with no adherence to laws of time and space. The characters are not interacting but neither are they separate, t...

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A Surrealist artist of world-wide renown, Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City in 1907. At the age of 18 she was injured in a bus accident, suffering a broken spinal column, collarbone, pelvis, several ribs, as well as 11 fractures in her right leg, and a dislocated foot. Through nearly 30 surgeries ...

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