Magdalena Carmen Frida Khalo Calderon, born on 6 of July 1907 in Coyocan (Mexico), known as Frida Khalo, was a Mexican painter. Her work thematically revolves around her biography and her own suffering. She was the autor of 150 works, mainly self portraits, in wich she projected her difficulties for survice
-Her great achievement was to become to a feminist symbol, as she vindicated the role of women in society and broke with the canons of drawing through wich women were represented as male figures.
-She was a painter teacher at the school of Plastic Art and member of the mexican culture seminar. In 1938, she had her first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York.
-In September 1946 Frida won one of the annual award "National Awards for Art and Science" for her painting "Moises".
-Her life was marked by physical pain in 1913 she fell ill with poliomyelitis, this disease left a permanent sequel: the right leg was much thinner than the left.
"The two Fridas " is one of the most representative works of Frida, the painter made this in 1939.
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A celebrity fact file
FRIDA KHALO
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Magdalena Carmen Frida Khalo Calderon, born on 6 of July 1907 in Coyocan (Mexico), known as Frida Khalo, was a Mexican painter. Her work thematically revolves around her biography and her own suffering. She was the autor of 150 works, mainly self portraits, in wich she projected her difficulties for survice
-Her great achievement was to become to a feminist symbol, as she vindicated the role of women in society and broke with the canons of drawing through wich women were represented as male figures.
-She was a painter teacher at the school of Plastic Art and member of the mexican culture seminar. In 1938, she had her first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York.
-In September 1946 Frida won one of the annual award "National Awards for Art and Science" for her painting "Moises".
-Her life was marked by physical pain in 1913 she fell ill with poliomyelitis, this disease left a permanent sequel: the right leg was much thinner than the left.
"The two Fridas " is one of the most representative works of Frida, the painter made this in 1939.