frida kahlo 1907-1954. biografía 1907 born in coyoacán (suburb of mexico city) –told people she...
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Frida Kahlo
1907-1954
Biografía• 1907 Born in Coyoacán (suburb of Mexico City)
– Told people she was born in 1910-year of the Mexican Revolution
• Father was a painter
• At the age of six contracted polio
• Dreamed of becoming a doctor and gaining fame
• 1925 Bus accident– Physical – Physiological
Biografía cont.• Had nothing to do and
began to paint out of boredom
• After recovering from her accident she enrolled in the National Prepatory School where she met Diego Rivera
• 1929 Married Rivera– 20 year age difference
• 1930 traveled to United States
• 1933 Returned to Mexico
Biografía cont.• Rocky marriage
– Infidelity– Leon Trotsky
• 1936-1937– Trotsky
• Lenin’s friend• ‘Enemy’ of Stalin• Expelled from many
countries• Invited to Mexico
• 1939 divorced from Rivera• 1940 re-married• Only had one exhibition in
Mexico in 1953• Died in la casa azul in 1954
Diego Rivera1886-1957
• Born in Guanajuato, Mexico• Started taking night classes for drawing and painting
classes when he was ten years old • At age 12 enrolled full time• Had his first exhibition in 1906• 1907-1921 Traveled around Europe
– Spent time in Paris– At the start of WWI, and the Mexican Revolution
• 1921 Returned to Mexico– 1922 Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and
Sculptors– 1922 Mexican Communist Party– Active in the Soviet Revolution
• See painting The Agitator
Biografía cont.• When he returned from
Europe began collaborating with other Mexican artists– Muralismo
• Many of his paintings show his political beliefs
• 1930 painted murals for the Stock Exchange and California School of Fine Art– As well as opened an
exhibit at MoMA in NY• 1955 Married his agent
after death of his third wife• 1957 Died
Obras de Frida
• The Accident 1926• Self Portrait 1929• Frida and Diego 1931• Self Portrait (dedicated to Trotsky)
1937• The Two Fridas 1939• Self Portrait 1941• The Wounded Deer 1946
Obras de Diego
• 1907 Self Portrait• 1928 The Arsenal
– Shows the workers movement
• 1933 Man at the Crossroads– Rockefeller center (removed because of
Lenin image)
• 1948 Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park
La Guerilla (Zapata’s Landscape) 1915
Creation 1922
El Muralismo
El muralismo mexicano• [1] ‘El muralismo mexicano nació a finales
de la década de 1920, [2] cuando el gobierno decidió poner a disposición de los artistas el espacio mural de los edificios públicos. [3] Fue así que los pintores más entusiasmados por una revolución social, sobre todo Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco y David Alfaro Siqueiros…Sus temas eran la vida del mexicano común, sus valores y costumbres y la lucha social’– http://www.languages.uncc.edu/
Otras muralistas
• Jose Clemente Orozco– 1932 The Epic of American Civilization 24
panels• Aztec Warriors (panel 4)• Symbols of Nationalism (panel 19)• Dartmouth College
• David Alfaro Siquieros– 1957 Museum of National History
• From Porfiriato to the Revolution