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Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1951 Coconuts: Cocos: Oil on masonite, 25.4 x 34.6 cm Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico 1951 Portrait of Marta Patricia Procel: Retrato de Marta Patricia Procel: Oil pencil on masonite, 70 x 61cm [3] Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico [13] 1951 Portrait of My Father: Retrato de mi padre
The text on the picture reads, "Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is July, 1947. In Coyoacán, Mexico, the place where I was born." [3] [n 1] Kahlo was 40 years old at the time.
The Earth (Mexico), with all her vegetation, is subsequently holding Frida Kahlo. Continuing further, Frida is then holding a nude Diego Rivera, whose forehead contains a third eye. This work is rich in symbolism, with multiple layers of meaning. However, the symbols are not unlike many of Kahlo's other works.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter active between 1925 and 1954. She began painting while bedridden due to a bus accident that left her seriously injured. Most of her work consists of self-portraits, which deal directly with her struggle with medical issues, infertility, and her troubeparate Frida on which to project her anguish and pain. [2]
Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress is described as: "Kahlo appears half length, wearing an elegant velvet dress, against a background of stylized waves. She presents herself as a comely young woman of the time, her hair neatly parted in the centre and combed into a chignon that highlights her oval face and symmetrical features.
What the Water Gave Me (Lo que el agua me dio in Spanish) is an oil painting by Frida Kahlo that was completed in 1938. It is sometimes referred to as What I Saw in the Water. Frida Kahlo’s What the Water Gave Me has been called her biography. As the scholar Natascha Steed points out, "her paintings were all very honest and she never ...
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Kahlo began this painting while staying in New York City with her husband, Diego Rivera, and completed it after the couple returned to their home in Mexico City. [1] The painting was shown to the public for the first time at the Levy Gallery in New York in 1938 with the title My Dress Was There Hanging , and was shown again in Paris in 1939 ...