Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was born on 6th July 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico and she died on 13th July 1954 where she was born. She died at the age of 47 for a pulmonary embolism that is a blockage of the artery in the lungs.

She was the third daughter of the family, she had a lot of problems when she was a child because when she was six, she got poliomyelitis and that provoked that she was in bed during nine months.

She was one of the first girl that started to go to the School of Mexico and there she was studying medicine but she won't be dedicated to this.

On 17th September 1925, she suffered a big accident when she was travelling in a bus that was rolled by a trolley car. Her column was fractured for three parts and more parts of her body were destroyed for example her right leg was fractured for eleven parts. This accident forced Frida to have more or less thirty-two operations in all her life.

Before the accident, in 1925, she was the apprentice of a friend of her father who was a painter but she didn't like painting. But after this tragic event, she couldn't move to have a faster recovery and she started to draw frequently and with her works she showed the things that happened in her life and her feelings.

In 1928 Frida started to stay with Diego Rivera and they had a good relationship. One day she showed her works to him and he cheered her up to continue drawing. On the 21th August 1929 they got married but they had a lot of problems because they stayed with another people and with them. She discovered that she was bisexual, and finally in 1939 they got divorced.

In 1930, she got pregnant but with her sickness and the bad position of the fetus the doctors decided to interrupt the pregnancy and it was very hard for her to accept she will never have any children.

Her works are in a lot of expositions and people say that her expositions were surrealists but truly they represent her life.

In 1953 in the City of Mexico it was organized an exposition but the doctors didn't recommend Frida to go because her health was very bad in that time. Despite this, she went with an ambulance and she was all the time in a hospital bed. She was in the middle of the exposition and there she explained jokes, sang and drunk all the afternoon, it was successful.

She died in Coyoacán on the 13th July of 1954. Nobody did an autopsy and her ashes are conserved in the Frida Kahlo Museum.

Judith P.S.

4th ESO B