Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who lived during the 20th century. She is best known for her many portraits, self-portraits and for incorporating Mexican folk art into her works. At the age of 18, she was involved in a bus accident that caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. She often features herself in her portraits because as she explained, “I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best.” In 1939, the Louvre purchased “The Frame” by Frida Kahlo making her the first Mexican artist to be featured in their collection.
Books
Children can meet famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and learn how she experimented with different ways of painting herself and channeled her experiences into her art, in this collaboration with The Met that will inspire readers to create their own masterpiece.
Presents a biography of the painter who was famous for her self-portraits, haunting imagery, and marriage to Diego Rivera, and details how she was inspired by the ancient culture and history of her beloved homeland, Mexico.
Frida Kahlo’s life was lived with passion and feeling, her wild imagination gave birth to some of the most vivid and alive art the world has ever known. Kids will learn about the many difficulties in her life that she faced with courage and fierce determination to become one of the most important artists of the last century.
Bilingual text, accompanied by colorful photographs, explores the famous artist’s life, and illuminates the laughter, love, and tragedy that influenced her work.
A collection of biographical poems, accompanied by the artist’s own paintings, reveal Frida Kahlo’s life-long suffering from a crippling bus accident, the anguish and joy of her two marriages to Diego Rivera, and her thirst for life.
From 1926 until her death in 1954, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo created striking, often shocking, images that reflected her turbulent life.
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