Frida Kahlo

"They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn't, I never painted my dreams, I painted my reality."

Frida Kahlo

Surrealism is an artistic movement that explored the territory of dreams and the unconscious mind through the creation of visual art. It was officially launched in Paris, France, in 1924, when French writer Andrй Breton wrote the first surrealist manifesto. The movement soon spread to other parts of Europe and to North and South America. One of the most important artists within this movement was a woman called Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo is an artist in many ways. Besides her talent to paint surrealist thoughts on canvas, she also was an artist in her mind and body. She was artistic in the way she portrayed herself and with her dressing. She appeared full of spirit, however, she often covered her real with her work, only letting everyone see the imaginary Frida. The world was unaware of her agony, and of what she felt. Many people are fascinated with Frida Kahlo's artwork because of emotional background. She kept all her emotions in her, eventually expressing it out on her artwork. She painted her rage, her unhappiness, and physical sufferings.

Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyoacбn, in the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father Wilhelm Kahlo was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who arrived in Mexico in he changed his first name to Guillermo and worked as a photographer specializing in architectural monuments of the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras. Soon after his first wife died in childbirth, Kahlo's father married the woman who was to become Frida's mother.

Frida was a bright young woman who had no intentions of being the famous artist that she would become. At first, her dream was to attend medical school and become a doctor. However, on September 17, 1925 on her way home from school, she was involved in a tragic bus accident that had a serious impact on her life.

Frida was found with a section on the hand rail pierced deeply in her body. Doctors believed that there was no chance of saving her. When she woke up, she felt the unbearable pain in her abdomen in addition a fractured pelvis, a dislocated shoulder, and a spine that was fractured in three places. Frida and become motionless, and in pain. With nothing to do, Frida had begged her father to allow her to use his paints. She never studied art, and started by teaching herself to paint by studying the works of the Italian Renaissance. She then decided to give her paintings away as gifts.

Frida Kahlo was married to the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Frida first met Diego Rivera at the Ministry