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Influences on Frida Kahlo's Life (Pain (Multiple surgeries (Some, like…
Influences on Frida Kahlo's Life
Love
Diego Rivera
Numerous Affairs
Heinz Berggruen
Leon Trotsky
Isamu Noguchi
Nikolas Muray
Alejandro Gomez Arias
Her family
Her pets
Politics
Communist
Joined the Mexican Communist Party with Diego
Leon Trotsky and his wife stayed with her and Diego
Some of her paintings had political undertones
E.g Self portrait along the Boarder Line
Pain
Contracted Polio at 6 year of age
Bus accident
Glorified pain in her paintings
Attended an art opening in a hospital bed
Drank and smoked to ease the pain
Multiple surgeries
Some, like her spine surgery, failed
Art
Themes
Transformation
Transmutation
Children
Pain
Destiny
Betrayal
Heartbreak
Surrealism
Self-portraits
Mirrors to how she saw herself
"I paint for myself"
Contradictions
Painted herself as crippled and beautiful
Smoke and drank but was a lady