Monday 23 December 2013

Frida Kahlo "the suffering of living"


Self Portrait with Necklace of Thorns 1940

Frida Kahlo is a world-famous artists, can all recognize his face, his distinctive eyebrows. He was born on July 6, 1907, in Mexico. Frida was marked from an early age by physical pain and disease. The first "curse" that suffered was diagnosed when I was six Polio, a highly contagious disease that took her to suffer a series of injuries, infections, operations ... as shown below in some of his paintings.


The Wounded Deer 1946

The September 17, 1925 had a serious accident and his spine was fractured into three parts, and suffering fractures in two ribs, collarbone and three in the pubic bone. His right leg was fractured in eleven parts, dislocated his right foot, his left shoulder was dislocated and a handrail pierced from the left hip and out the vagina.

The Broken Column 1944


The medical solutions of the time were terrible, painful, distressing. At least 32 operations, mechanisms of "stretch" corset ... Being on the brink of death and permanent paralysis, took refuge in the paint. He began self-portraits, reflecting on the events they lived and feelings that tormented her.


Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed) 1932



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