Pain of Frida Kahlo
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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo, or simply Frida Kahlo, was born in 1907 in Coyoacan, a pretty suburb of Mexico City (Alcantara 7). The third daughter of a Hungarian-Jewish father and a Spanish-Indian mother ("Reviews"), Kahlo emerged as a dynamic, passionate and vivacious personality, and throughout a difficult life it was these strengths, along with her art, that would sustain her life force. It is almost impossible to separate the life and work of this extraordinary artist, since her paintings are so much a part of her biography ("Frida Kahlo"). Kahlo's extreme personal and female imagery, as well as her artistic independence, are very significant in the art world, especially to women as a whole. Each canvas serves as an intimate journal entry documenting what is on her mind or what she is experiencing at that particular time. A familiarity with Kahlo's background can only enhance and give insight into this most passionate artist and her work.
Frida Kahlo suffered immense physical and emotional pain during her lifetime, and was even thought by some to have been "murdered by life" (Fuentes). Pain was the consistent theme that dominated her paintings, and it was through this pain that a great artist emerged. Kahlo's life of chronic suffering began at the age of six, when she contracted polio. In primary school she was tormented by the other children, who poked fun at her withered leg (Kettenmann 10)...