 Frida Kahlo Gifts
This Mexican painter was born on July 6, 1907 on the outskirts of Mexico City. Oh, by the way, her full name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon, but that’s like, three inches long, so we’ll call her Frida Kahlo. Influenced by indigenous cultures in Mexico, as well as some European styles such as Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism, Frida Kahlo became an international painting sensation! On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was riding a bus when it was struck by a trolley car. She suffered multiple injuries, including a pierced abdomen, a pierced uterus (effectively destroying her chances at having children), a dislocated shoulder, a broken spinal column, a broken collar bone, several broken ribs, a broken pelvis, a dislocated and shattered right foot, and eleven fractures in her right leg. Amazingly, she survived this terrible, disfiguring incident, but she would be in pain for the rest of her life. Still, she painted through the injuries, specifically painting self-portraits that symbolically expressed the pain that she constantly felt. She died on July 13, 1954 of a pulmonary embolism.
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