History Creator / FridaKahlo

* PerpetualFrowner: Frida portrays herself this way in her paintings.

Creator/SalmaHayek portrayed her in the 2002 biopic ''Film/{{Frida}}''. Her spirit is a notable character in the Creator/{{Pixar}} film ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''. A clone of her is one of the main characters in the 2023 revival of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh.''

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (July 6th, 1907-July 13th, 1954) was a UsefulNotes/{{Mexic|o}}an painter, who we know best for her many self-portraits, portraits, and paintings inspired by Mexico and Nature, employing a naive folk art style, with autobiographical elements mixed with fantasy, belonging to the ''Mexicayotl'' movement. In her art, she explored identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexico.

Creator/SalmaHayek portrayed her in the 2002 biopic ''Film/{{Frida}}''. Her spirit is a notable character in the Pixar film ''WesternAnimation/Coco''. A clone of her is one of the main characters in the 2023 revival of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh.''

Creator/SalmaHayek portrayed her in the 2002 biopic ''Film/{{Frida}}''. Her spirit is a notable character in the Pixar film ''WesternAnimation/{{ Coco}}''. A clone of her is one of the main characters in the 2023 revival of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh.''

Creator/SalmaHayek portrayed her in the 2002 biopic ''Film/{{Frida}}''. Her spirit is a notable character in the Pixar film ''WesternAnimation/{{ Coco}}'' A clone of her is one of the main characters in the 2023 revival of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh.''

Creator/SalmaHayek portrayed her in the 2002 biopic ''Film/{{Frida}}''. A clone of her is one of the main characters in the 2023 revival of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh.''

Creator/SalmaHayek portrayed her in the 2002 biopic ''Film/{{Frida}}''. Her clone is also one of the main characters in the 2023 revival of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh.''

Creator/SalmaHayek portrayed her in the 2002 biopic ''Film/{{Frida}}''.

She was born in 1907 to a German father, Guillermo Kahlo, and a mestiza mother, Matilde Calderón y González, Kahlo lived most of her life in La Casa Azul in the city of Coyoacán. When she was six, she contracted polio, which stunted her leg. When she was 18, in 1925, she was in a bus accident and was left bedridden for three months afterwards (in a plaster corset); the incident left her with chronic illness for the rest of her life. In 1928, she was introduced to Diego Rivera, who she would divorce in 1939 but remarry in 1940. Among her many affairs, she had one with UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky. Kahlo also was quite openly bisexual, having same-sex relationships that she didn't hide.

* AnimalMotifs: Possibly (depending on who you ask) more obvious in ''Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird'', with the hummingbird being a symbol of falling in love (or it's supposed to the be a ref to Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli), the black cat being bad luck, and the spider monkey a symbol of evil (or supposed to represent her husband, who gave her one as a gift).

* LoveHurts: Implied best with ''Los Dos Fridas'', where the "unloved" Frida is pinching a vein (?) with pincers and has an open heart, looking a lot more miserable than the "loved" Frida, whose heart is intact. She painted this after her divorce in 1939
* MindScrew: A lot of her artwork (like ''The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth, Mexico, Myself Diego, and Senor Xolotl'' and ''Moses'') could be what we can describe as "trippy"

* ShoutOut: ''My Birth'' might have had some influence from 16th sculpture of Tlazolteotl

* TragicStillbirth:'' Henry Ford Hospital'' references this, being painted after her miscarriage.

She was born in 1907 to a German father, Guillermo Kahlo, and a mestiza mother, Matilde Calderón y González, Kahlo lived most of her life in La Casa Azul in the city of Coyoacán. When she was six, she contracted polio, which stunted her leg. When she was 18, in 1925, she was in a bus accident and was left bedridden for three months afterwards (in a plaster corset); the incident left her with chronic illness for the rest of her life. In 1928, she was introduced to Diego Rivera, who she would divorce in 1939 but remarry in 1940. Among her many affairs, she also had one with UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky.

* IllGirl: Because of the bus accident, she often painted herself with the resulting struggles afterwards, i.e ''The Broken Column''

She was born in 1907 to a German father, Guillermo Kahlo, and a mestiza mother, Matilde Calderón y González, Kahlo lived most of her life in La Casa Azul in the city of Coyoacán. When she was six, she contracted polio, which stunted her leg. When she was 18, in 1925, she was in a bus accident and was left bedridden for three months afterwards (in a plaster corset); the incident left her with chronic and illness for the rest of her life. In 1928, she was introduced to Diego Rivera, who she would divorce in 1939 but remarry in 1940. Among her many affairs, she also had one with UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky.

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (July 6th, 1907-July 13th, 1954) was a UsefulNotes/{{Mexic|o}}an painter, who we know best for her many self-portraits, portraits, and paintings inspired by Mexico and Nature, employing something a naive folk art style, with autobiographical elements mixed with fantasy, belonging to the ''Mexicayotl'' movement. In her art, she explored identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexico.

* IllGirl: Because of a the bus accident, she often painted herself with the resulting struggles afterwards, i.e ''The Broken Column''

* WriteWhatYouKnow: At one point, Frida studied to become a doctor. After she was injured, she couldn't resume her studies, though she did use her knowledge in anatomy in her art.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: As Frida put it, "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best."

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (July 6th, 1907-July 13th, 1954) was a Mexican painter, who we know best for her many self-portraits, portraits, and paintings inspired by Mexico and Nature, employing something a naive folk art style, with autobiographical elements mixed with fantasy, belonging to the ''Mexicayotl'' movement. In her art, she explored identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexico.

She was born in 1907 to a German father, Guillermo Kahlo, and a mestiza mother, Matilde Calderón y González, Kahlo lived most of her life in La Casa Azul in the city of Coyoacán. When she was six, she contracted polio, which stunted her leg. When she was 18, in 1925, she was in a bus accident and was left bedridden for three months afterwards (in a plaster corset); the incident left her with chronic and illness for the rest of her life. In 1928, she was introduced to Diego Rivera, who she would divorce in 1939 but remarry in 1940.

[[caption-width-right:300:Frida Kahlo in 1930]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Taken in 1930]]

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* WriteWhoYouKnow: As Frida put it, "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best."