3/8/11 Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a very interesting woman- I've been looking over her work and it is all a bit macabre as well as awkward. Don't get me wrong, I really like awkward because that is what makes good art.

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”  –Frida Kahlo


Her paintings often depict her in various situations. Always the same face structure, she never changes her beauty to enhance it or to degrade it. To her, that is what she looks like, so that is what we see.


She was not really popular until after she died, but then again, Michael Jackson's big comeback was right after he died as well. When you die, that is when you become a hot ticket item.

The painting above depicts her at the age of 18, when she was in a tragic bus accident that impaled her upon a metal pole. As you see down the inside of her, there is the pole. She drew her inspiration from the hardships that she suffered in life, such as her husband cheating on her with her own sister, and then getting a divorce because she cheated on him.