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Frida Kahlo

Where was the first solo exhibition of Frida Kahlo's works held?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


New York. The Kahlo-Riveras moved to the USA in November 1930 for four years. San Francisco was where they first moved to, where Rivera had been commissioned to paint murals for the San Francisco Stock Exchange, then they moved on to Detroit. In October 1938 an exhibition was held at Julien Levy's gallery in New York. She was happy to have this success because it meant freedom from her husband. She used this freedom and ended up having affairs with various men, including Nickolas Muray.



When Frida Kahlo was born, what first name was she given?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


Magdalena. She was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calderon. She was born on the 6th July 1907 as the third daughter of Matilde Calderon de Kahlo and Wilhelm Kahlo.



What was the date of Frida Kahlo's death?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


13 July 1954. In the years leading up to her death Frida kahlo was confined to a wheelchair for much of the time. She had to have her right leg amputated below the knee in 1953 but still managed to attend an exhibition of her works in Mexico. In 1954 she caught pneumonia but still went to a demonstration against North-American intervention in Guatemala, against the advice of doctors. She died on 13 July in the Blue house she lived in with Rivera.



What was her nationality?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


Mexican. Her mother was Mexican, her father was German and she was born in Coyoacan, a part of Mexico City.



What did she do in 1948?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


rejoined Mexican Communist Party. Kahlo became a member of the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana in 1942. She received a national prize from the Ministry of Public Education in 1946, the same year that she had to go to New York for an operation on her spine. In 1950 she had numerous operations on her spine and had to stay in hospital for nine months.



Kahlo travelled to Paris in 1939, where she exhibited her works at the Renou and Colle gallery and met which group of painters?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


The Surrealists. In 1938 Kahlo painted 'What I Saw in the Water' or 'What the Water Gave Me', which contained a lot of fantasy and surrealist elements. Kahlo said, "They said I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." Kahlo does not enirely remove herself from reality in any of her works.



In what year did she join the Mexican Communist Party and fall in love with Diego Rivera?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


1928. Kahlo first admired Rivera's work at school in 1922. She met him again in 1928. He painted 'Ballad of the Revolution', which showed Kahlo distributing weapons for the revolutionary struggle. They got married on 21 August the following year.



In 1928 Frida painted a portrait of a woman who went on to have an affair with her husband Diego Rivera. Who was the woman?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


her sister Cristina. Kahlo painted 'Portait of My Sister Cristina' in 1928. Cristina also modelled for some of Rivera's work and this contact developed into an affair in 1934.



How did her first pregnancy end?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 (vickivixen82)


She had a termination. Frida Kahlo endured three pregnancies. The first had to be terminated due to incorrect position of the foetus, the second ended in miscarriage and the third ended with a termination due to 'infantilism of the ovaries'. She illustrated her feelings about her miscarriage in the painting 'Henry Ford Hospital' or 'The Flying Bed' painted in 1932.