Frida Kahlo, the icon of modern art

This episode is a summary of Frida Kahlo story. I narrated Frida Kahlo story briefly, I talked about who Frida Kahlo is, Frida Kahlo suffering with illness and how she discovered her passion for drawing, her struggle in political and feminist stances, her death and her fame and appreciation after death. #Mass4025_f20 #PRSQU Photo Credit: Twitter, @mankind_History

Pain and suffering remained with Frida Kahlo throughout her life. In the last years of her life, her health deteriorated a lot, as she had gangrene In her right leg, and she spent a long time in the hospital and used to live on morphine as a pain reliever, then her leg amputated to the knee and she lived dependent on metal stents. After her suffering with the illness, she passed away in 1954 at the age of 47, due to a lung infection. According to her will, her body was burned and placed inside a jar in her blue house, to end her last message “ I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return”. Frida Kahlo #Mass4025_F20 #PRSQU Image credit: Gisèle Freund, Art-sheep

Frida Kahlo was considered a model for feminist and rebellion, her bold personality, surprising and revolutionary actions have made her legend she is today. She knew how to take advantage of her position and her personality, since her appearance she drew attention through her distinctive Mexican clothes, and her Repuzo scarf that she put around her shoulder or put it in braids of her hair. Her scarf became the focus of Mexico struggle for freedom. Kahlo also was known for her anti capitalist political stances. She covered in her paintings some social taboos and she emphasis on details that highlight features of national identity. Through her art she tried to portray the reality around her, but what was amazing in her depiction of reality, that she always envelops her in unfamiliar atmosphere. This made critics describe her works as surrealism, which she strongly rejected and insisted on her belonging to the school of reality. Photo source: DailyArt Magazine. #Mass4025_f20 #PRSQU

In a suberb of Mexico, in 1907 Frida kahlo was born . At the age of six she became disabled due to polio in her right leg, and that handicap a bad psychological impact in her life. She was a promising Student who love biology and wanted to be a doctor. In her youth she had a bus accident that fractured her bones and affected her spine, for this reason she had to lie on the bed for an entire year, and her mother took care of her and place her a mobile bed and a mirror in room ceiling. She was alone and face to face with herself, so she asked for feathers, colours and papers. She discovered her passion for painting, and that’s was the way to express her pain and torment. Photo credit: Unknown. However, Juan Guzman photographed Kahlo in this environment in the 1950s. #Mass4025-f20 #PRSQU

Frida kahlo, a famous Mexican painter, known for her self-portraits, with her brush she recorded her life, she dated herself and took us with her on a journey into the world of colours. Frida Kahlo is considered today as one of modern art icons, her name turned into a commercial commodity, printed on T-shirts, mugs and gift boxes and her career is summed up in braids and thick knotted eyebrows.