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Self portrait
Frida Kahlo paints her first self-portrait. She would be 19 years old by then and was suffering the consequences of the serious accident that left her bedridden for a long time. During that time, Frida could not see more than the ceiling of her room. Her mother, moved, designed for her a special easel, which would allow her to paint lying down -
Frida and Diego Rivera
love, Frida was a true devotee of her husband, Diego Rivera. He always perceived Diego as a superior talent, while his own work was perceived as "absolutely ghastly." With this mindset, she had no problem assuming the role of the wife who supports and serves her husband. -
Frida and the cesarean section
In 1930, a year after she was married, Frida had to face the first of her three abortions. The one in 1930 required surgical intervention, since the development of the baby in the womb was absolutely impossible, due to the health complications of the mother. -
The two Fridas
In this painting, Frida seems to have been inspired by the memory of an imaginary friend she had at 6 years of age, a kind of alter ego. In the painting he represents his two cultural heritages: on the left, the European; on the right, the indigenous woman. -
My birth
Encouraged by Diego Rivera to portray the most unique moments of her life, Frida wanted to represent her birth as if she had given birth to herself. In the scene the mother appears with her face covered by the sheets, alluding to her death. Frida pokes her head between the mother's legs and under her a pool of blood appears, also remembering her most recent miscarriage -
A few pickets
Diego Rivera's infidelities had reached the climax when he decided to take Frida's sister for her lover. News about a femicide at that time shocked Frida: a man had stabbed his wife to death. Upon being caught by the authorities, he declared: "I only gave him a few pickets." Frida represented this crime as an allegory of her emotional suffering in the face of double betrayal, as a spiritual death. -
Self-portrait with necklace of thorns
By 1939 Frida had divorced Diego Rivera. It is the failure of his love experience that he portrays in the work Self-portrait with a necklace of thorns. He will use natural symbols for this and will combine Christian and indigenous values. The necklace of thorns, like a crown of Christ, represents the strangulation and the wounds caused by Rivera's betrayal. -
Still life
This still life was commissioned by the first lady of Mexico at that time, Soledad Orozco, wife of President Manuel Ávila Camacho. The painting is framed by a circumference that refers to the maternal uterus. Within this, plants and fruits with erotic connotations are included, which is why the piece was rejected.
