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She was born on July 6th, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City
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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, "Frida Kahlo".
She was a famous mexican painter.
Frida was te third daugter of photographer Guillermo Kahlo (father) and Matilde Calderón (mother). Her two older sisters were Matilde and Adriana; after them his only brother was born, Guillermo.
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In 1913 he suffered a polio attack that permanently affected the use of his right leg.
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Being a 16-year-old girl, when she was studying at the National Preparatory School of this city she met Diego Rivera, who was painting her mural The Creation in the school
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At eighteen Frida Kahlo suffered a very serious accident that forced her to a long convalescence, during which she learned to paint, and which most likely influenced the formation of the complex psychological world that is reflected in her works.
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In 1925 he suffered a serious traffic accident that fractured his spine and pelvis. In addition to making it impossible for him to have children, the accident was the cause of numerous future operations and always precarious health.
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The first work he painted was the Self Portrait with a velvet dress, which he made in 1926 as a gift for his then boyfriend Alejandro Gómez Arias. On the reverse, Frida wrote: "Today is always still."
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When she was 22 years old, he married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, 20 years older than her.
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This fusion between personal themes and forms of popular imagery is expressed emblematically in the work Henry Ford Hospital (1932). Despite the accident, Frida hoped her second pregnancy would come to fruition, but her fractured pelvis could not accommodate the development of a child. The traumatic experience of a new abortion was the origin of the picture.
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Their marriage was complicated among other things by the constant infidelities of both parties. One of the worst was Diego's deception with Frida's younger sister, Cristina Kahlo. In 1939, he divorced Diego Rivera (although they remarried in 1940), the year he executes his work Las dos Fridas (1939). Another notable painting is Without Hope (1945).
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She died on July 13th, 1954. The cause of her death, officially, was pulmonary embolism.
