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Frida Kahlo’s Paw

Posted in Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo's amputation, Frida Kahlo's crippled leg, Frida Kahlo's diary on January 21, 2013| 3 Comments »

About a month before doctors amputated her right leg at the knee, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo drew a picture of her severed feet on a pedestal. Instead of healthy veins protruding from the amputated feet, dead, thorny vines snake out. The flesh is yellow, anemic, and the page is stained with her blood. This is one of many diary entries […]

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Frida Kahlo: What’s in Her Closet?

Posted in ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, & DESIGN, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged Appearances Can Be Deceiving: The Dresses of Frida Kahlo, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Frida and Diego, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo self-portrait, Frida's amputation, Frida's closet, Frida's clothes, Frida's leg, Frida's operations, Frida's red boot, Tehuana costume, Tehuantepec on January 16, 2013| 5 Comments »

From ABC News/Univision Frida Kahlo’s Closet is Opened After 58 Years “Imagine being in Frida Kahlo‘s childhood home and opening up a closet that has been locked for decades. Inside are hundreds of personal items – personal photographs, love letters, medications, jewelry, shoes, and clothing that still hold the smell of perfume and the last […]

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Frida Kahlo Had Childhood Polio Part 2

Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged 1938, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo amputation, Frida Kahlo death, Frida Kahlo had polio, Frida Kahlo morphine, Frida Kahlo spina bifida, Julien Levy, Manhattan, Mexican art, Mexican folk art, New York City, What I Saw in the Water or What the Water Gave Me on February 10, 2010| 17 Comments »

(First see “Frida Kahlo Had Childhood Polio Part 1.”) Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexican artist Frida Kahlo‘s childhood polio caused more than a slight deformity in her right leg. The decreased circulation to the limb caused her lifelong problems and pain. From November 1-15, 1938, the first exhibition of Frida’s paintings was held at the avant-garde […]

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Frida Kahlo in a Suit?

Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Frida Kahlo, frida kahlo art, frida kahlo dressed like a man, Frida Kahlo photographs, Guillermo Kahlo, Mexican art, Mexican folk art, pictures of frida kahlo as a teenager on January 23, 2010| 3 Comments »

“Portrait of My Father,” (1951), Mexican artist Frida Kahlo shows us her photographer father Guillermo Kahlo with the tool of his trade – a camera. From an early age, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) identified with her German-born father, Guillermo Kahlo, a portrait photographer. In her diary, she wrote (in Spanish): “My childhood was marvelous because, […]

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Frida Kahlo: Prisoner in a Corset

Posted in Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida's accident, Frida's corsets, Frida's health, Frida's operationsbiographies of artists on November 16, 2009| 12 Comments »

For her entire adult life, artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) suffered unbearable pain from her spine and foot. (See “Frida’s First Bad Accident.”) She endured over thirty surgeries to correct the problem (in both Mexico and the U.S), was subjected to batteries of tests, X-rays, and spinal taps, given blood transfusions, physical therapy, and strong medicine […]

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Frida Kahlo: An Accidental Artist

Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo paints in bed, Frida Kahlo photos, Frida Kahlo's bus accident, Frida Kahlo's New York exhibition 1938, Frida Kahlo's special easel, Julien Levy on November 10, 2009| 17 Comments »

“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.” To Julien Levy, who prepared Frida Kahlo‘s 1938 New York art exhibition, Frida wrote (in English): “I never thought of painting until 1926, when I was in bed on account of an automobile accident. I was bored as […]

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Frida Kahlo: A Few Small Nips

Posted in Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged A Few Small Nips, A Portrait of My Sister Cristina Kahlo by Frida Kahlo, Artemundi auction, Bertram Wolfe, biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, Cristina Kahlo, Diego Kahlo, Diego Rivera painting a mural, Diego Rivera's Rockefeller Center mural, Ella Wolfe, Frida Kahlo, Jean van Heijenoort, Lupe Marin, murdered by life, Portrait of Lupe Marin by Diego Rivera, Self-Portrait with Curly Hair by Frida Kahlo, Vladimir Lenin on May 27, 2009| 3 Comments »

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) went into her marriage (1929) with her eyes wide open. She knew that her husband, famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, spread his affections around. Diego engaged in numerous short-lived and casual relationships with the fawning women – actresses, models, artists, photographers – who flocked around him. He was Mexico‘s most celebrated artist of […]

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Frida Kahlo’s Other Accident

Posted in Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, Diego Rivera, frida and diego wedding, Frida Kahlo, Frida's marriage to Diego on May 27, 2009| 5 Comments »

Click here to read “Frida Kahlo’s First Bad Accident” before reading this post. Frida Kahlo once said to a friend, “I have suffered two serious accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar ran over me….The other accident is Diego.” She was referring to her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), the world famous painter and active […]

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Frida Kahlo: The Suicide of Dorothy Hale

Posted in Claire Boothe Luce, Diego Rivera, Dorothy Hale, Frida Kahlo, Isamu Noguchi, PEOPLE, tagged 1938 Kahlo New York exhibit, biographies of actresses, biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, Clare Boothe Luce, Diego Rivera, Edward G. Robinson, Frida Kahlo, Gardner Hale, Georgia O'Keeffe, Isamu Noguchi, Julien Levy Gallery, Leon Trotsky in Mexico, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Trotsky, The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, Time magazine, Vanity Fair magazine, Vogue magazine on April 30, 2009| 44 Comments »

By the summer of 1938, Frida Kahlo was on her way to being discovered as an artist in her own right, rather than only being referred to as the wife of famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. That summer, actor and art collector Edward G. Robinson had traveled to Mexico City just to see her paintings […]

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New Frida Exhibit in Brooklyn

Posted in Frida Kahlo, Nickolas Muray, PEOPLE, tagged Art, Frida Kahlo, La Casa Azul, Nickolas Muray on January 7, 2019| 1 Comment »

Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A. February 8–May 12, 2019 The museum is charging a separate admission for the Kahlo show of $20 to $25, depending on the day. The museum will be open seven days a week for the run of the exhibition. excerpted from the Brooklyn Museum website […]

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Frida’s Bed

Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo's bed, Frida Kahlo's Picasso earrings, the Blue House on May 1, 2014| 2 Comments »

Because she was ill for so much of her adult life, artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) spent much of her time in bed. Her bedroom was upstairs in her home, La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán, outside Mexico City. As a result, her bedroom became her daily world. She gathered around her necessary things […]

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What Did Elvis and Diego Rivera Have in Common? (No, Not Frida!)

Posted in Diego Rivera, Elvis, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of singers, Diego Rivera, Diego Rivera had a twin, Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley had a twin, Frida Kahlo, Graceland, Guanajato, Memphis Tennessee, Mexico, the flower carrier by diego rivera, Tupelo Mississippi on February 2, 2010| 2 Comments »

What did Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and rock sensation Elvis Presley have in common? They both had twin brothers who died. Diego Rivera and his twin brother Carlos were born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajato, Mexico. Carlos, however, died eighteen months later. On January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, Gladys Presley gave birth to identical twin […]

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Frida Had Polio (Pt. 1)

Posted in Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Childhood Polio, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo had polio, Frida Kahlo photos, Frida Kahlo pictures, Mexican art, Mexico on January 22, 2010| 13 Comments »

At the age of six, Frida Kahlo was stricken with polio. It affected her right leg. She spent nine months in bed. “‘It all began with a horrible pain in my right leg from the muscle downward,” she remembered. ‘They washed my little leg in a small tub with walnut water and small hot towels.’” […]

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Frida Gets Dressed

Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo clothes, Frida Kahlo fashion, Frida Kahlo hair, Frida Kahlo jewelry, Frida Kahlo photographs, Frida photos, Frida pictures, Nickolas Muray photos of Frida on November 12, 2009| 3 Comments »

“Frida was often heard to say, ‘I look like a lot of people and a few things,’ as if everything that made up her personal appearance was a matter of chance. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Dressing each day was an almost ceremonial affair during which she would try innumerable combinations of blouses […]

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Frida’s Red Hot Lover

Posted in Leon Trotsky, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, casa azul, Controller of the Universe by Diego Rivera, Cristina Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida's self-portrait for Trotsky, Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Leon Trotsky in Mexico, Man, Mexican Trotskyites, Natalia Trotsky, the Blue House in Coyoacan, Trotsky's assassination, Trotsky's murder, Trotskyites on June 10, 2009| 22 Comments »

In 1937, Frida Kahlo took a new lover. He was Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary. When Frida met Trotsky, he was a man without a country. He had come to Mexico as a political refugee. He had been expelled from the Soviet Union by his archrival Josef Stalin. For nine years, Trotsky and his wife Natalia had lived in […]

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