Frida Kahlo Research Paper

Frida Kahlo is a Mexican painter. She was born in 1907 and died in 1954. When she was 18, she had a bus accident. According to pbs.org, Kahlo said, "when I leave the hospital two months from now there are three things I want to do: paint, paint, paint." Therefore, she started to draw about two months after this circumstance. Her painting works are approximately 200, that included the 55 of her self-portraits. She was Mrs. Diego Rivera during her marriage with a muralist, Diego Rivera. She married with him twice. He was one of the most important parts to affect on her life, include her art work. For instance, one of her works, "self-portrait on the borderline between Mexico and the United States," she drew it when her husband was eulogizing on his "Detroit Institute of Arts." …show more content…
She painted this because of the homesick; she had to stay in America for a long time, since Diego received the commissions to draw murals in the United States. Therefore, Kahlo expressed the ambivalent feeling by this picture. As the title of her drawing, she is standing on the pedestal and divides the land by two different sides. One is the Mexican side. The other is the U.S. side. She represents the Mexican side as the natural life cycle, the United States represents the unfriendly society. In addition, she painted more colorful on the Mexican side. She used the darker color on the United States side, which are grey and blue; these pigments express about the depression. There is only one thing to connect two different worlds, which is the electricity generator to supply the power for the platform which Frida is