Frida Kahlo

[AB Editor]

I have been told it is her birthday today.

A very powerful artist. Who suffered a terrible accident:

"On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was riding in a bus when the vehicle collided with a trolley car. She suffered serious injuries in the accident, including a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. An iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive ability."

and produced great work. Read more on the wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo

The video should give anyone who doesn't know her work a quick primer.

Spare Ed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-UjfdIGEY

[redman41]

A very gifted Mexican Artist Ed who tragically died at the age of 47, a real waste of talent !

[rowanwitch]

But who never learned that one should deal with ones facial hair... I do like her work though something so powerful and uninhibited about her colours but with such good control over line and form

[AB Editor]

Yes, it seems that way. Powerful symbolism in her work - all directly related to her own experience. A good kind of artist really.



Spare Ed

[jno]

she did deal with it, rowanwitch: she painted it. An artist who painted herself as she was, not as she might have liked to appear in OK magazine. She was married to another great artist.

[askyourgran]

Thank you for that, I watched the documentary about her some time ago. She was a very talented artist. Quite apart from her self-portraits and the symbolism, her other portraits appear to be lifelike as well.

[oscarina]

She was married to Diego Rivera a talented artist, there was a biographical movie made about her life ! Frida starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina, I haven't seen it but would now like to watch it as she sounds a remarkable woman!