The_Life_Of_Frida_Kahlo

The Life Of Frida Kahlo The life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is one of extreme hardship and unbelievable triumph. Her paintings and her life both reflect her strong nationalistic character which helped to shape Mexican culture in the nineteen thirties and forties. With her strength and unwearied dedication, she formed her own work, individual from the art movements of her time. Frida’s personal and highly symbolic paintings, as well as her vigorous determination, have come to present her as an icon of feminism and perhaps on of the greatest symbolic figures of the twentieth century. The following essay will look at Frida’s achievements as a nationalist and a feminist, and how they are depicted throughout her paintings and her life. It was in Mexico City on the sixth of July nineteen hundred and seven that Frida was born. Stricken with polio at the early age of six, she entered elementary school later than her peers. During this time, the Mexican Revolution had begun, rousing up a spirited new sense of nationalism throughout the country. There was a movement away from the former dictator Porfirio Diaz, which had encouraged the citizens of Mexico to look proudly to their frida, mexican, paintings, nineteen, time, life, diego, art, mexico, frida’s, work, women, painting, pain, one, communist, began, became, years, two, throughout, revolution, political, party, part, painted, later, feminist, during, while, towards, through, school, politics, personal