Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo is a Mexican artist who was born on July 6th 1907 and died in 1954, 19 days after her birthday.
When Frida was a child at the age of 6 she contracted a disease called polio, causing her to become cripple. By the time she was 18 she was caught in a bus accident, because a trolley ran in front of the bus. Because of this she was bedridden for three months.
As you can imagine being in bed for three months would get pretty boring, but Frida Kahlo resolved that problem. After her tragic accident she devoted her life to painting, but not just any painting, most of her paintings were self portraits. The reason Frida painted self portraits was because she didn’t see things like we do, because she was bedridden most of her life. All she could really see was herself. In her paintings Frida incorporated lots of nature, and animals in the background and on her shoulders. All of her paintings are very unique in lots of different ways for example in one of her paintings entitled ‘Self portrait with Bonito’ she had a bird and a butterfly in the background, and in another one of her pictures by the name of ‘Me and my Parrots’ she had birds all around her in the background.
In all of her paintings she had some very bold features. One of these was her eyebrows, which were a carob colour, and they were pretty large and stood out a lot. Another thing that I have noticed in Frida’s paintings was that she never looked happy, she always had a frown on her face, which to me sort of clashed with her colourful backgrounds, and the lovely animals surrounding her.
Frida lived on painting pictures throughout the rest of her life, until one fateful day she passed away. Throughout her life she had painted a total of 55 self portraits.
In conclusion I think that Frida Kahlo lived a very hard life, but got through it with just three things, courage, hope and painting.
ELLA
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