Fun Trivia : Kahlo, Frida

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Kahlo, Frida

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

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954


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 her nationality?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954


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



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

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954


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.



How did her first pregnancy end?

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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.



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?

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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.



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

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954


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.



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

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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.



What did she do in 1948?

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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.



What was the date of Frida Kahlo's death?

Portait of Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954


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.



Frida Kahlo changed her date of birth on her birth certificate. What did she change it to?

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July 7, 1910. She gave her birth date as July 7,1910, but her birth certificate shows July 6, 1907.



How old was Frida when she caught polio?

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6. This left her with her left leg skinnier than her right leg. It was her first major injury.



Frida Kahlo's home was known as the Red House. True or False?

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False. Frida's home was known as the Blue House.



When Frida was 18, she was in a serious accident involving what?

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Bus. Frida was left with a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and 11 fractures in her right leg. In addition her right foot was dislocated and crushed, and her shoulder was out of joint.



Frida Kahlo was Diego Rivera's _______ wife?

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third. She was his third wife. Diego Rivera was an artist too. The couple divorced, but remarried in 1940. This remarriage was as turbulent as the first.



Diego and Frida were married in what year?

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1929. Diego married Frida on August 21, 1929. Diego wasn't faithful in their marriage, cheating on Frida with her sister, Cristina Kahlo, as well as many more.



Frida began her career as an artist after what?

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Being involved in an accident. She started painting whilst bored in her hospital bed, after sustaining multiple injuries from an accident.



Frida and Diego's marriage was often called what?

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A union between a dove and an elephant. Their marriage has been called the union between an elephant and a dove, because Diego was huge and very fat, and Frida was small (a little over 5 feet) and slender.



Frida Kahlo died in what year?

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1954. Kahlo died on July 13, 1954, supposedly of a pulmonary embolism. She died aged 47. Many speculate that she committed suicide.