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Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. In her youth, she was badly injured in a traffic accident and she never quite recovered. Much of her work expresses her suffering. She and painter Diego Rivera had a stormy marriage, which was also the subject of many of her paintings.

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What are facts about Frida Kahlos?

she is one of the artist of women's history month

What inspired Frida Kahlo?

After Frida's accident when she was paralyzed, her mother brought her a lap easel. Frida also had a mirror across the room from her, this sparked off her self-portrait work. Along with self portraits she also painted her husband Diego Rivera and animals. She moved to America after a while however she always felt torn between her Mexican heritage and her life in America. She painted herself with her heart torn out a few times which leads to think that she was forced to move to America and she would much rather be back in Mexico. Frida Painted a few self-portraits of herself with terrifying things happening to her like her skin ripped apart showing her broken spinal column along with nails stabbing into her naked, fragile body. So in conclusion i feel that life and herself was the inspiration of her work.

What did Frida Kahlo paint most of the time?

Frida Kahlo did paint creations and portraits most of her time.

Who is the famous Russian that was exiled from Russia by Lenin and fled Mexico where he had a brief affair with Frida Kahlo?

Leon Trotsy, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, 1879-1940. Russian revolutionary.

He joined the bol'sheviks in 1917 and worked with Lenin to organise the October Revolution. He was active also in building the Red Army that eventually defeated the White Russian forces in the Russian Civil War.

He quarrelled with Stalin after Lenin's death and was defeated in a power struggle, being expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and exiled in 1929.

He settled in Mexico in 1937 where he was murdered by a Stalinist agent.

What was Frida Kahlo's favorite food?

Stuffed potatoes. tacos tameles and brownies

How do you style your hair to look like Frida Kahlo's?

Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxKwGYYzP48

What kind of art did diego rivera do?

Diego Rivera was a Mexican artist and political radical. He was a loud and proud Communist who made bold and unapologetic statements through his use of mural painting. He was the one-time husband to fellow painter Frida Kahlo who was both lover and protoge and famous for her self-portraits.