Frida Kahlo
by Briana b., Adriana P., Anyssa L., DEnice L and andrea v.
About frida
- Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon
- Born July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico
- Was a Mexican painter
- Had polio as a child
- Was diagnosed with ptsd, bipolar dissorder, and dissociative identity dissorder
- She was one of the few females to attend school
- she suffered lifelong health promblems
- Ever since her death her art has grown
- eceived a commision from the mexican for five portraits of important
WHat she did that was controversal
- became known for her jovial spirit and love for tradition and colorful clothes and jewlery
- hungout with a group of politcally and intellectually like-minded students
- Frida gave
- Frida was a self taught painter
- Started painting after being severely injured in a bus accident
- She married mural painter Diego Rivera in 1929
- Painted the Suicide of Dorothy Hale, which was supposed to be a gift for Dorothy's mother.
- kahlo
- kahlo and rivera befriended leon trotsky as he sought political sanctuary from joseph stalin's re
family
- Her father was a german photographer who immigrated to mexico and where he met and married her mother
- she had 2 older sisters and one younger sister