Brief introduction of Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo 1907 was born in Mexico City, the third daughter in the family. Her father is a photographer of Hungarian Jewish descent and was born in Germany. Mother is descended from Spanish and American Indians. She suffered physical injuries for a long time in her life. He got polio at the age of six and has been a kidnapper ever since. However, Frida, a teenager, is a tomboy who is fearless, which makes her father particularly like her. Her father has an enlightened idea about her education. She was taken to the preparatory hospital on 1922. This is the best preparatory school in Mexico. At that time, I just started recruiting girls. Frieda is one of 35 girls among 2000 boys.

It was in this school that Frida met her future husband, diego rivera, one of the three outstanding figures of Mexican mural movement. He just returned from France and was entrusted to do murals here. Frida was deeply attracted by him. Because she didn't know how to face the sudden feelings, she teased him and joked with him, trying to make the painter's wife jealous.

1925, Frieda experienced the biggest accident in her life, which changed her fate. On September 17, Frida's bus collided with a tram. Her spine was broken into three parts, her cervical vertebra was fractured, her right leg was severely fractured and one foot was crushed. A metal handrail penetrated her abdomen and went straight through her vagina. The accident made her lose her fertility, and she will be accompanied by inner pain all her life, although it took her a long time to face it. She later described the accident that made her lose her fertility in a typical black humor way: "It made me lose my virginity". Years later, her boyfriend still shudders when he recalls: "The violent collision tore her clothes. Someone in the car was carrying a bag of gold powder ... her bloody body was covered with gold powder. " For a whole month, she was covered in plaster and lying in a box like a coffin. No one will believe that she will survive. 1926 She drew her first self-portrait in the process of recovery from illness, and from then on she began to record herself, her life and her feelings by painting.

1928 Frida once again met Rivera whose marriage had just broken down. They found that apart from the same political views (both of them were active supporters of productism at this time), they had too much in common, so they formally got married in August 1929. Frieda later said: "I have experienced two unexpected fatal blows in my life, one was to knock down my streetcar and the other was to meet Rivera."

Many mural projects were forced to stop because of the gradual deterioration of the political climate in Mexico for left-wing sympathizers. 1930, Rivera and his wife came to the United States, first to San Francisco, and then to new york, and held a retrospective exhibition of Rivera held by the Museum of Contemporary Art. During this period, Frida was only regarded as a charming foil of a great painter, but the situation changed quickly.

1932, Rivera was entrusted to create murals for Detroit Museum, during which Frieda aborted. During the break, Frieda painted Abortion in Detroit, which is the first true and keen self-portrait. Since then, she has developed a completely different style from her husband, mainly drawing nutrition from Mexican folk art and small altar paintings, which Rivera understands and respects. Since then, Frieda has set out to create a series of artistic forms that have never been seen before in history, solemnly showing the true, realistic, cruel and bitter qualities of women. No one has ever written such a painful poem on the canvas of oil painting like Frida. She has undergone at least 32 major and minor operations. She lay motionless in bed for a whole year. During this period, she wore a corset made of leather, plaster and steel wire to support her spine. When life was bleak to the extreme, she found solace in artistic creation. She wrote: "My painting is the most frank expression of myself."

1936 She painted an oil painting of her family. Her grandparents were wearing big badges floating in the clouds, and she appeared in three places: a fertilized egg, a fetus tied to her mother's white wedding belt, and a child, holding a rope in her hand, tightly tied a family of seven. Almost all her paintings are self-portraits. She said, "Because I am often alone, I take selfies, because I know myself best, so I take selfies." . It was painting that turned her disaster into drama and became her typical self-image-crying in pain and longing for attention. In real life, she always tries her best to create a relaxed and happy atmosphere for her friends. She often paints herself as "two Freda", one is suffering and the other is familiar. No matter how terrible her physical pain is, her serious expression and grave eyes face the viewer with firm dignity.

The couple returned to Mexico on 1935, after which Rivera and Frida's sister began to have an affair. Although they finally stopped quarreling, it became a turning point in their relationship. Rivera has never been loyal to any woman, and Frieda has since begun a complex relationship with many men and women. One of them is the surrealist Brayton. He arrived in Mexico from 6: 438 to 9: 38. He marveled at this country, calling it a "natural surrealist country", and also marveled at Frida's paintings. Partly because of him, Frieda held an exhibition in new york at the end of 1938, and Bretton wrote the preface himself. The exhibition was a great success, with half of the works sold.

1939, Braden suggested holding another exhibition in Paris. The exhibition was not very successful in business, but the reviews were good. The Louvre has a collection, which won the praise of Kandinsky and Picasso. However, Frieda doesn't like the surrealist who she calls "the crazy son of a group of female wolves". She said, "They think I'm a surrealist, but I'm not. I never paint dreams, I paint my own reality. "

In the early 1940s, Frida and Rivera divorced. The reason is still a mystery, although they still appear in public in pairs. Less than two months later, they remarried in America. One of the reasons may be that Rivera realized that Frieda's health would deteriorate mercilessly and someone had to take care of her. Later, they came together again, and Diego proposed to Frida again. Diego stayed with Carol until the end of her life.