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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]
The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas in Spanish) is an oil painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The painting was the first large-scale work done by Kahlo and is considered one of her most notable paintings. [1] It is a double self-portrait, depicting two versions of Kahlo seated together.
Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1954 Frida in Flames (Self-Portrait Inside of a Sunflower) [15] Oil on canvas, mounted on wood, 23.8 x 32.4 cm [3] Private collection, United States [3] 1954 Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick: El Marxismo dará salud a los enfermos: Oil on masonite, 76 x 61 cm Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1954
This painting is the only image of an orchid in her artwork. [18] A horizon line cuts through the background of the painting, in the distance is Ford's River Rouge complex. [19] Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo had come to Detroit because Edsel Ford [20] had commissioned the Detroit Industry murals for the Detroit Institute of Arts. [11]
Scholars and critics have attempted to interpret Kahlo's expression in this early self-portrait, including suggesting, "Frida appears serene, her face a portrait of tranquil beauty. But, there's an unmistakable intensity in her gaze, perhaps a hint of the fiery spirit and passion that was soon to unfold in her subsequent works." [14]
16 June–18 November 2018: Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. [317] The basis for the later Brooklyn Museum exhibit. 3 February–30 April 2016: Frida Kahlo: Paintings and Graphic Art From Mexican Collections at the Faberge Museum, St. Petersburg. Russia's first retrospective of Kahlo's work.
The painting is now shown at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. [4] It was the only sale Kahlo made in her Paris exhibition. [5] Upon Kahlo's death in 1954, the New York Times stated that she was "said to have been the first woman artist to sell a picture to the Louvre." [3] [6]
This portrait was created two years after Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera married, and is widely considered a wedding portrait. [2] The painting shows Kahlo standing next to her husband and fellow artist, Rivera. Rivera, portrayed as a painter, holds a palette and four brushes in his right hand while Kahlo tilts her head towards him.