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Frida was the daughter of a German photographer Guillermo Kahlo and a Mexican jeweler Matilde Calderon. Frida Kahlo began to paint only after a horrendous bus accident which forever crippled her young body. The tumultuous story of the life of Frida Kahlo has been documented in print and film, including the book "Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo" written in 1983 by biographer and art historian Hayden Herrera, and 2002 Academy Award winning film "Frida" directed by Julie Taymor. The Mexican artist had once said, "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality." This self awareness of her body's imperfections came early to Frida Kahlo because many years before the infamous bus accident, as a girl, Frida wasstricken by polio at a young age. The young girl who would grow to be an introspective Mexican painter became familiar with a life of sickness, pain and infermity early on.
Young Frida Kahlo was an exuberant student at the preparatory, lover of the literature of monumental politicians and enthusiast of life in her dear homeland of Mexico. A nationalist until death, she claimed throughout her life to have been born in 1910, the year of the bursting Mexican Revolution. That same year, Kahlo considered also represented her life of suffering seemingly running congruent with the tragedies and sufferings of the nation she called home.
-- FRIDA KHALO ARTICLE BY Ingrid Alvarez |
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Frida
Kahlo was born in a one story bright blue house in Coyoacan, Mexico
on July 6, 1907, though she would claim her birth date was 1910
-- which coincided with Mexico's revolution. The artist died in
the same house 47 years later. 
