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Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) 
Aliases: Maglalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón; Frida Rivera
Professions: Painter
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Frida Kahlo (1910-1954)
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Frida Kahlo (1910-1954)
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FRIDA KAHLO (1910-1954)
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Frida Kahlo (1910-1954)
Biography: Kahlo
(b Mexico City, 6 July 1907; d Mexico City, 13 July 1954). Mexican painter. She began to paint while recovering in bed from a bus accident in 1925 that left her seriously disabled. Although she made a partial recovery, she was never able to bear a child, and she underwent some 32 operations before her death in 1954. Her life’s work of c . 200 paintings, mostly self-portraits, deals directly with her battle to survive. They are a kind of exorcism by which she projected her anguish on to another Frida, in order to separate herself from pain and at the same time confirm her hold on reality. Her international reputation dates from the 1970s; her work has a particular following among Latin Americans living in the USA.
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