My interest in Frida Kahlo and her work started in Spanish
class in high school when we learned about her. She was a painter in Mexico at
the beginning of the 20th century and painted mostly self portraits.
She stated, “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the
subject I know best”, which gives insight into her personality. She had an interesting, and quite depressing
life, getting in an accident as a child and having a roller coaster of a
relationship with another Mexican artist, Diego Rivera. She also had a massive
internal conflict with staying with her Mexican roots versus becoming more
mainstream, shown in her work “The Two Fridas”. Her paintings are interesting
to me because they align so perfectly with her real life struggles. It was
obvious she was an intense person, driven by her mind, and it shows in her
artwork.
This is a general site about the artist Frida. It shows her
biography as well as some of her most recognized paintings, with the years she
made them. It gets into some of her political affiliations, which was very
important in her life.
This is an extremely specific biography of Frida Kahlo, and
would be helpful if you wanted to analyze her paintings so you could see what
was happening in her life at the time the painting was created.
This is a very helpful website that showcases her most
famous paintings. It’s awesome because if you roll over the paintings in
different spots it will show you the significance of that detail in the
painting that you are rolling over.