Frida Kahlo essays

Frida Kahlo essays Her life "I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down.....The other accident is Diego." Frida Kahlo was born on July 7 1907, in the city of Mexico. However, she claimed that she was born in 1910, the year of the Mexican Revolution because she liked to think that her life began at the same time as modern Mexico. In fact, there are many anecdotes or lies like this in her life. At the age of six, doctors discovered that she had polio; her right leg was very much smaller than the left one. That didn't make a difference for her. When she entered high school many years later, she was known as the 'tomboy' of her class and soon of the school. It's at this school (National Preparatory School) that she met her husband, the great muralist Diego Rivera. At eighteen, she was involved in an important bus accident with damage to her spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and 11 fractures in her right leg. More than that, her right foot (the one with polio) was crushed and her shoulder was dislocated. She had to stay immobile for an entire month! It 's after this accident that she began to paint because she had nothing else to do in bed. With all her operations, she found the prosper profession for herelf! She couldn't be a nurse who always runs around or a ballerina, since she had about 30 operations! Unfortunately, she used drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and medication only to try to forget her pain. It's in a meeting to which a friend had brought her that she became closer to Diego. Maybe he was not the best thing in her life but at least he made her express her feelings on canvas and lead her to be emotionally stronger than she was. They married on August 21, 1929. In fact she married twice with him. At the beginning it was really a love marriage, there were no other reasons like money or contacts. But the more time went on, the more it became difficul ...