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VIVA LA VIDA Frida Kahlo
Colorful, surreal, and imbued with incredible depth of feeling, Frida Kahlo’s work has influenced painters, writers, musicians and designers, not to mention countless young women who are continually inspired by the great artist to find beauty in their own strangeness.
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“I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
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First Showing in Mexico Paintings are exhibited at The Galeria de Arte Nacional Autonoma Universidad de Mexico
Suffers an accident and is forced to be in bed for months
Paints her second self-portrait Times Flies
Diego has an affair with Frida’s sister and leaves the house
Marries Diego Rivera
She forgives Diego
First abortion after 3 months
Frida has an affair with Trotsky
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BIRTH
1926
1931 Paints Frieda and Diego
Paints her first serious work
6th Annual Exhibition of TheSan Francisco Society of Women Artists
Breton offers to show her work in Paris
Self-portrait In a Velvet Dress
1st public showing of her work
First solo exhibition in NY
Meets Diego Rivera and he is fascinated by her art
Second miscarriage
Mexique, exhibit of her work Gets a divorce and because of the emotional and physical pain Frida starts drinking
First work of a Mexican artist to be purchased by The Louvre
Awarded the National Prize of Art and Science, from the Moinistry of Public Education for her painintg Moses
The Two Fridas and Wounded Table are exhibited Frida’s physical decline becomes more acute over the next few years
Her father dies and she suffers from deppression which exacerbates her ill health
1940
She is confined to an iron corsetfor 8 months Her health worsens and develops Anemia
1946
Her right leg is infected with Gangrene and it has to be amputeded below the knee
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1943 Joins the Faculty of the Education Ministry’s School of Painting and Sculpture
First solo exhibition of Frida’s works in Mexico
Pains Moses, her interpretation of Freud’s book
Paints Diego and I, The Love embrace of the universe, The Earth (Mexico, Me, Diego and Mr. Xolotl.
1954
DEATH
Diego and Frida get married for the second time
Frida is hospitalized for nine months because of recurring sinal problems
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I hope the end is joyful, and I hope never to return. –FRIDA KAHLO