Frida Kahlo: Her Life – Her Work

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon, born in the Blue House in the Coyoacan district of Mexico City of a Jewish Hungarian father and a Mexican mother – it is 1907. Frida Kahlo fascinates – her art is exotic, intriguing, potent, eerie; they burst their frames.

Frida Kahlo’s fierce candor enabled her to place on canvas the inside and outside of herself. She was “the first artist in history to depart from the male principle.” Humor, pain and turmoil are the leitmotiv of her thematic paintings.

The self-portrait is her instrument. With extreme vividness we experience the solitude of female thought.

This slideshow and lecture is a visual journey tracing Frida Kahlo’s artistic personality from her art as an ambitious beginner to the excruciating, provocative art at the close of her life at47 years of age.

Andre Breton called her art “a ribbon around a bomb.”